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Premises liability; invitee; licensee; trespasser.
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A Springfield man settled his premises liability lawsuit against Rain Forest Creations, an architectural firm, for $25,000.
On Dec. 18, 2009, Gary Spivey entered the firm in Springfield seeking directions to another business, which had recently moved. While leaving the firm, he tripped and fell on a raised platform.
...'s description of himself as a "business invitee," calling him instead a trespasser on the premises...Pihana believed Spivey qualified as a licensee, a category that falls between business invitee an...
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premises liability; landlord’s duty governed by R.C. 5321.04(A); distinctions between invitee, licensee and trespasser abolished; landlord’s duty to illuminate, foreseeable injury
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Property owners are often sued by people who come onto their property and get injured. Sometimes the injury is the result of an act or omission of the property owner. Sometimes the injury is the result of an act or omission of the injured party. Often, it's hard to blame anyone for what happened - a pure accident.
Not surprisingly, the law has been struggling with what to do about "premises liability" for hundreds of years. Here in Colorado, premises liability has bounced back and forth between the courts and the state Legislature for the past 25 years, resulting in a set of rules that provide abundant employment opportunity for lawyers.
... party into one of three categories - trespasser, licensee or invitee - and creates a different sta...
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CIV.R. 56(C)/SUMMARY JUDGMENT; TRESPASSER; DISCOVERED TRESPASSER; INVITEE; LICENSEE; STANDARD OF CARE.
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Torts - Negligence - Passenger injured at rapid transit station - Duty of care owed passenger - Where entrant upon another's land exceeds scope of landowner's invitation, entrant loses status of an invitee and becomes either a licensee or trespasser.
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Automobile damage, rodents. Burden of proof, duty of care. Judgment for defendant.
... as an invitee, licensee or trespasser. Gladon v. Greater Cleveland Regional Trans... owner typically owes a duty to invitees to exercise ordinary care in maintaining the...
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...53-08-03. Not invitee or licensee of landowner. Subject to the provision... leased land is an invitee, licensee, trespasser, or otherwise. 53-08-05. Failure to warn against d...
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...Lapara as a business invitee, to keep the premises in a reasonably safe conditi... Date Filed: 10/25/2011 as an invitee, licensee, or trespasser. Id. at 724. An invitee is a person...
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... to the traditional categories of trespasser, licensee, and invitee, all of which deal with the...