Negligent Security

Negligent Security attorney

Coral Springs / Pompano Beach Negligent Security Attorney

When you are at work, or out and about at the local mall, watching a movie at your local theater, or running errands at nearby businesses, your assumption is that you are in a physically safe environment. However, if the owners of the places you patronize, visit, or work in do not take proper and adequate safety or security measures, you could be the victim of an accident or a physical attack that leaves you injured, hospitalized, and traumatized. Negligent security can occur in any private or public premises, including commercial businesses, apartment buildings, educational facilities, hospitals, sporting or entertainment venues, and more, and it pertains to a landowner's duty to protect its visitors from foreseeable criminal activity.

If you or a loved one has suffered a serious injury due to the negligence of a business owner, landowner, city or county agency, or other party in the Coral Springs or Pompano Beach, Florida, area, please contact me to discuss the circumstances of your situation. As a Coral Springs negligent security lawyer, I may be able to assist you in filing an injury claim or lawsuit against the party responsible for your injuries.

Premises Liability and Negligent Security

Generally, property owners have a duty to provide adequate and responsive security when there is a foreseeable risk of criminal activity. Such events can take place at school campuses and dorms, theme parks, sporting events, shopping malls, parking lots, hotels, motels, financial institutions, parades, apartments, condominiums, on cruise ships, clubs, and bars, for example. Physical altercations, criminal attacks, and other incidents, even involving those who are intoxicated or otherwise under the influence, can take place when security is weak, poorly trained, inadequate, or missing. Harm may include injury and even death may result from negligent security.

Florida's HB837 sigificantly modified negligent security claims by creating a presumption against liability for multifamily residential properties if the owner substantially implements specific security measures such as providing adequate lighting in common areas and and placing 1-inch deadbolts on unit doors. Moreover, the law also requires the trier of fact, such as a jury, to consider the blame of all parties, including the criminal actor him/herself who caused the harm, shifting some liability away from the property owner and onto the criminal. This may decrease the incentive for property owners to implement stricter security measures, but HB 837 includes this significant change nonetheless. Additionally, pursuant to HB837 the time to file a lawsuit for negligent security reduced from 4 years to 2 years.

It is my goal as a Coral Springs or Pompano Beach negligent security attorney to ensure that your rights are aggressively protected. Injured as a result of negligent security? Call us for a free consultation.