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Throughout Florida, families, and property owners have to make special concessions for children. Throughout the Florida Suncoast, adults with a proper sense of responsibility supervise children in the swimming pool, especially if they can’t swim. Parents who keep firearms in the home will store weapons in a lockbox, safe, or container that a child can’t easily open.
This is because everyone understands that children are still developing. They have yet to fully appreciate the rules laid out for them or even understand their own limitations, such as how an inability to swim can lead to drowning or how aiming a weapon at another person and pulling the trigger can result in injury or death.
And when it comes to trespassing, there are special laws here that leave property owners more vulnerable than they suspect.
Traditional Premises Liability
Property owners have a fundamental legal obligation that is known as “duty of care.” This means they are expected to maintain a safe environment for visitors and take reasonable precautions to ensure that safety is enforced.
Cleaning up slippery fluids from a walking surface is one example. Or ensuring an aggressive dog is leashed and contained so that it won’t attack visitors. If a property owner is aware of a risk on the property that could harm visitors and chooses to ignore the potential danger, that is considered negligence. That is premises liability if that negligence directly results in an injury, such as a known...
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