Year: 2026

General liability covers responsibility for a broad range of injury accidents, including car crashes and defective product incidents. Premises liability focuses specifically on responsibility for injuries that visitors suffer due to unsafe conditions on someone else’s property. Both types of liability involve similar legal standards but focus on different facts and types of responsibility.  If […]

In New York premises liability cases, an “open and obvious hazard” is a dangerous condition that a reasonably careful person could see and avoid by paying attention. A property owner might claim that a hazardous condition was open and obvious as a defense in a slip-and-fall injury case.  Whether a slip-and-fall hazard on someone else’s […]