Frequently Asked Questions on Personal Injury Cases
Am I responsible if one of my customers gets injured at my place of business?
Not necessarily. Business owners not the insurers of their customers’ safety. However, businesses do owe customers a duty to protect them against those risks that are reasonably foreseeable.
Businesses have a legal duty to exercise ordinary care in keeping their premises in a reasonably safe condition. This includes using reasonable care to learn of the existence of any dangerous conditions on the premises, and to correct those conditions.
Businesses also owe a duty to warn their customers of concealed perils that are known or should be known to the business owners, but are unknown to their customers and could not be discovered by the customers through the exercise of due care.
Although there is no duty to warn of an open and obvious danger, whether something is open and obvious may not be so easily defined. If a business fails to meet its obligation to its customers, then it is responsible for the injuries that follow.
Which breeds of dogs are more likely to bite?
Pit bulls, Rottweilers, German shepherds, huskies, and Alaskan malamutes top the list of dog breeds most likely to bite. The first two breeds accounted for more than half of the reported dog related fatalities. As common sense would indicate, the larger the dog, the more severe the injury. Children are the most frequent victims with the greatest incidence of dog attacks occurring between the ages of 5 to 9. The face is the most common target (77%). 61% of dog attacks occur at the home or at a familiar place, and 77% of the biting dogs belonged to the victim’s family or friend.
In Florida, dog owners are automatically responsible for any injury caused by their dogs in an unprovoked attack. Thus, a dog owner is responsible for all damages flowing from an unprovoked dog bite that you may have suffered while in a public or private place.