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Landlord’s Responsibilities in a Negligent Security Action

A landlord has the common-law duty to take minimal precautions to protect tenants from foreseeable harm, including foreseeable criminal conduct by a third-person.  In order to recover against a landlord for assault, a tenant is required to show that the landlord’s failure to provide adequate security was the proximate cause of...

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New York Negligent Security Attorneys, Effie Soter, Esq., serving New York, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens

How Negligent/Inadequate Security Results in Personal Injury Lawsuits

An owner or occupier of land has a legal duty to exercise reasonable care under the circumstances to maintain his or her premises in a reasonably safe condition. That duty includes taking minimal precautions to protect members of the public from reasonably foreseeable criminal acts of third parties.  Especially in areas...

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