How Can You Prove Negligent Security?

Business owners can be liable for negligent security cases if they don’t provide adequate security for their premises and it results to personal injury, death, or property damage. Businesses have a duty under the law to keep their customers safe, and providing basic security is a way to prevent foreseeable dangers like a robbery. Injured victims can win their negligent security case by proving that:

• The property owner had a duty to provide basic security measures like adequate lighting. Basic security requirements will depend on the type of property and the property’s location. In the Waffle House case, the man argues that the restaurant owner should have done more to protect customers from robbery and other crimes.
• The injury was caused by the lapse in security. In this case, the plaintiff says he wouldn’t have been robbed if Waffle House had better security measures in place.
• The plaintiff suffered physical, monetary, property or other damages. The plaintiff suffered pretty serious physical injuries in the attack.

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