Business Negligence and Personal Injury

A business may be found negligent for some reasons, all of which involve breaching duties that the business has toward others. Each duty involves the ability to foresee a risk to others safety. These duties, known as duties of care can take many forms.

For example, a small retail pet shop would have the duty of care for delivery personnel who might be dropping off a new product, customers who enter their facility and inspectors who enter its place of business. If any one of these people trips over misplaced bags of dog food or even a toy that is within the store, it may be cause for a personal injury case based on a business negligence lawsuit.

Here are some more examples of the duty of care in other kinds of injury-related cases:

• In a slip and fall case, a property or business owner has a legal obligation to keep the premises free from known hazards, and must act within a reasonable time to discover and remedy other dangers as they present themselves.
• In a medical malpractice case, a doctor or other medical professional must provide treatment with the same level of skill and care that a reasonably competent health care provider would act with under similar circumstances.
• In a defective product case, the manufacturer, distributor, and seller of a consumer product all have a legal duty to produce and sell products that are free of unreasonable or unexpected dangers to consumers.