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If you or a loved one was assaulted, shot, or attacked at an apartment complex, parking garage, hotel, or business \u2014 and the owner failed to keep the place reasonably safe \u2014 you may have a claim against that property owner. Learn how foreseeable crime and property liability work.<\/p>\n

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Foreseeable Crime & Property Liability: When Is a Property Owner Responsible for an Attack?<\/h2>\n

Were you attacked on someone else’s property? Did you suffer a serious, permanent injury? The property owner may share the blame \u2014 but usually only if the crime was “foreseeable.”<\/strong> That one word often decides these cases. This page explains what it means in plain words. It also shows how our attorneys work to prove it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If You Were Attacked on Someone Else’s Property, You May Have a Claim<\/h2>\n

Maybe you were assaulted, shot, robbed, or attacked. It may have happened at an apartment complex, a parking lot or garage, a hotel, a bar, a store, or a gas station. You were badly hurt. Or a loved one did not survive.<\/p>\n

The person who attacked you is not the only one who may be responsible. The company that owned or ran the property may share the blame too. Owners must take reasonable steps to keep people safe. When they ignore a known danger and someone gets hurt, the law may hold them responsible.<\/p>\n

This area of law has a name: negligent security<\/strong>. It is a type of premises liability. Premises liability means a property owner’s legal responsibility for what happens on their land. But you do not need to know the legal terms to have a case.<\/p>\n

Our firm focuses on serious, life-changing injuries and deaths caused by violence a property failed to prevent. If that is your situation, request a free, confidential case evaluation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What “Foreseeable Crime Property Liability” Actually Means<\/h2>\n

This phrase means a property owner can be held responsible for a crime. That happens when they should have seen the danger coming and did nothing reasonable to stop it.<\/p>\n

Owners are not automatically responsible for every crime. The law is fair to them too. But they can be responsible when the danger was foreseeable<\/strong> and they failed to act.<\/p>\n

“Foreseeable” means the owner knew, or should have known, that a violent crime like this could happen. Picture an apartment complex with broken entry gates. The parking-lot lights are dead. The cameras do not record. And the property has a history of shootings. If management ignored all of that, the next attack was foreseeable.<\/p>\n

This is different from charging the attacker with a crime. Here, we are talking about the owner’s civil<\/strong> responsibility for negligence. Negligence means carelessness. This is not a criminal case.<\/p>\n

Who This Page Is For<\/h2>\n

This page is for people who suffered a permanent, life-changing injury in a violent attack on unsafe property. It is also for the families of those who died.<\/p>\n

You may have a claim if a violent attack caused:<\/p>\n