Trip and Fall Open and Obvious

These types of situations are always very fact dependent. You may very well have liability for this injury.

If you have not already done so, you should contact your liability carrier and place them on notice of this injury which occurred in your property. If you have medical payments coverage available to this injured party, it may be in your best interest to advise the party of this and offer to see to it that any medical bills are paid up to the policy limit. Sometimes by offering to pay the medical bills, no further claim is made. However, many times tenants are excluded from this medical payments coverage found in many landlord policies.



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