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Showing posts with label landowner liability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landowner liability. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Appeal in slip'n'fall points to deeper mysteries of historical 'open and obvious' danger doctrine

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Google Gemini CC0 Rejecting the phrase "open and obvious" as magical incantation, the Massachusetts Appeals Court Friday affirmed ...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Injured contractor finds no award in ruling spanning worker comp, premises liability, conflict of law

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Roof collapsed by snow (illustrative; not this case). Richard Allaway via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A worker hired to remedy a dangerous property co...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Accidental deaths on nonpublic stairways threaten public transit with tort liability in London, Boston

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Canning Town Station in 2020 ( photo by Ewan Munro CC BY-SA 2.0 ) An English court last week exonerated the London Underground of liabili...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Landlord owes no duty to cyclist attacked by tenant's dog, court rules, citing breed discrimination ban

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A "dog law" decision in the Massachusetts Appeals Court today recognized the state's ban on breed-specific legislation and ref...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Best friend of teen struck, killed by train may claim negligence without physical injury, appeals court rules

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On a "zone of danger" theory, the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week reinstated the claim of negligent infliction of emotional...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Appeals court rejects landowner liability for 'open and obvious' danger of backyard zipline

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The same day the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided the Boston Globe case this week, the Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgme...