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     Occupiers of Places       

If you slip or trip and fall or you are injured by some dangerous object or condition, while on another person's property, you often have the right to claim compensation. Places, such as homes, shopping malls, municipal sidewalks, stores, bus or train stations, airports, movie theaters, sports arenas, hotels or apartment buildings, have a duty to take reasonable care that their premises are safe for persons who are on their premises. This includes such precautions as: providing appropriate floor surfaces, lighting, hand rails or other necessary protection, ensuring that flooring and stairs are not slippery, making sure that display items or products are not placed in a position where they could injure someone, providing appropriate security and warning of potential hazards, complying with all building and fire code requirements, and so on. If visitors have been warned about potential problem areas and reasonable steps have been taken to protect them, the occupier can usually protect themselves from a claim. If people are injured as a result of a hidden hazard such as an icy sidewalk, however, they are likely to succeed in a claim.

Injured persons are not always as careful themselves as they ideally should have been. When an injured person has partly caused their own accident (by hurrying, or wearing improper footwear, for instance), their damage claim may be reduced by an appropriate percentage.



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