If someone faints on your property is the home owner liable ?
also if a person leaves the hospitol with an injury that was fixed and does not complain about any other problems, but later on, (weeks later) if they go back to the hospitol and find other injuries associated with the first problem. is the home owner liable for that as well? i mean the new problems could have occured somewhere else, so would that still make the home owner liable to be sued for all the conditions even after leaving the hospitol the night it happened?
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Unless you caused the person to faint in the first place, I don't see why you had or have any liability.
Maybe if I feel as though I am getting a heart attack I'll run next door so their insurance will cover me.
I dont know, seems pretty stupid sueing for that reason.
I mean hwo do you know he didn't INTENTIONALLY faint just for this reason?
Yes. It' called - "I used to be human but then I met a lawyer disease".
Don't sweat it. If the person truly fainted in the first place, you have no worries, unless you contributed in some way to the fainting spell.
No and no. Fainting is something beyond the control of the property owner. As for the second, If the property owner is at fault by leaving a rake in the driveway or something of that effect then the owner is liable for those injuries only but not the first and a good lawyer can make it sound like the second trip to the hospital was due to being released from the hospital prematurely.
Please don't take my word for it, I'm no lawyer but it seems you need to at least talk to a real lawyer.
If someone faints on your property is the home owner liable
NO
Not unless there was a hazardous condition on your property which caused them to faint and/or get injured. If it happened just because they have a medical problem, they could not hold you responsible.
Why did the person faint? Do they have some sort of medical problem ? Unless they fell from tripping over lose carpet or fell over something like a small toy, box chair. I would not think that they could sue but these days people will sue over anything. Call your home owner insurance company and ask them they maybe able to help you with this if you give them all the details.
Why did the person faint? If the fainting was caused be something on the property, the home owner may be liable. If the 'victim' had not eaten for days and fainted as a result, the homeowner is not responsible. As for 'additional injuries' the victim would have to prove they were related to the original incident. I don't know what injuries would be related to fainting that the hospital would fail to notice. But, I'm not a doctor.
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