What are my rights if I am injured on someone elses property?

A: An owner or occupier of property has a general duty to protect members of the public from injuries that may occur upon the property.  But the level of that duty will depend on the reason you are on the property.  These are called “premises liability” cases, and the personal injury lawyers at Noteboom—The Law Firm in Fort Worth have extensive experience in handling these lawsuits.

A property owner owes the greatest duty to someone who comes on the property for mutual business purposes.  The most common example is a retail store.  The store sells goods and services and you are interested in buying goods and services.  Further down the duty scale are property visitors who come on the land for social or non-business reasons.  Here, the most common example is a guest in someone’s home.  The least duty is owed to a trespasser, but the landowner can still not willfully or intentionally injure trespassers, and must not create a situation that would attract children into dangerous areas.