Sachse Premises Liability Lawyer

When Are Sachse Property Owners Liable for Injuries?

The existence of a “duty of care” is a key part of every personal injury claim based around legal negligence, including those pursued under premises liability law after an accident on someone else’s private property. In brief, someone who directly causes or allows someone else to get hurt by “breaching” their duty of care can be held financially liable for every negative effect that injury will have on the injured person’s life in the short and long term.

Landowners in Sachse and throughout Texas owe different duties of care to different types of property visitors, as our qualified premises liability attorneys could explain in more detail. To sum up, though, landowners here have no duty of care to protect unlawful trespassers from accidental injuries. However, they—the landowners—still cannot do anything to intentionally harm a trespasser by deliberately creating hazardous property conditions.

Landowners owe a greater duty of care to “licensees” visiting their property lawfully and for their own benefit, which requires those landowners to provide a warning about hazards already known to them and to correct those hazards reasonably quickly after discovering them. The most substantial duty of care, though, is owed to “invitees” visiting exclusively for the landowner’s benefit or for everyone’s mutual benefit, as landowners must additionally inspect their property on a regular basis so they discover previously unknown hazards early enough to warn invitees about them.