Real Estate/Development
Feb. 2, 2000
Owners not liable for violence on property
Sacramento - Business owners are not automatically liable for the financial and emotional harm suffered by people who unforeseeably are attacked by criminals on their property, according to a California Supreme Court ruling in December.
Sacramento - Business owners are not automatically liable for the financial and emotional harm suffered by people who unforeseeably are attacked by criminals on their property, according to a California Supreme Court ruling in December.
Under a lower court of appeal ruling, business property owners would have been forced to provide private police patrols and surveillance cameras regardless of the foreseeability of criminal activities on their premises.
Ruling in...
Under a lower court of appeal ruling, business property owners would have been forced to provide private police patrols and surveillance cameras regardless of the foreseeability of criminal activities on their premises.
Ruling in...
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