A yellow slippery caution sign is on the ground. The sign is placed on a sidewalk.

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 […]