Ontario’s Premises Liability Law protects those guests that are spending time on someone else’s property. According to the law in Ontario, such guests enjoy coverage, if their injury has resulted in lists of incidents.
List of incidents covered:
• Times when the guest slips and falls, due to a floor’s condition
• Swimming pool accidents, including those caused by the absence of a fence.
• Defective conditions, such as poor lighting in stairways, lose or missing handrails and improperly installed wires.
• A structure that is not build to code.
• A dog attacks. This covers those private contractors that must enter a home, in order to fix a mal-functioning piece of equipment.
Other locations where guests might be covered include restaurant, store, public institution, such as a library, a public school, public hospital, or a federal building. Additionally, the amusement park is covered, as long as the guests observe the posted rules.
Possible dangers in such a spot
• Fires
• Toxic fumes released into the air
• Entrance of a shooter
Situations that highlight an exception to the Premises Liability Act
Someone steps onto private property with the intention of committing a crime. In that case, any injury to the spotted criminal would not be covered. If someone ignores a “No Trespassing sign,” and then gets injured, that injury would not be covered. A guest has agreed to assume a recognized risk. For instance, someone that attends a sporting event could get hurt by an errant ball or puck. They can always contact the personal injury lawyer in Vaughan to get compensated for the injuries.
An exception to the exceptions
There is one special situation in which some unwanted individual has stepped on a private property and gotten injured. That could describe a result when a property owner has gone to extremes to keep a property safe from intruders. Some homeowners have tried to install some sort of trap for any intruder. Realize that construction of such a trap is against the law.
In Ontario, a property owner cannot design some structure on a property, with the intention of injuring any unwanted guests.
By the same token, it is illegal in Ontario to pretend ownership of a given section of land. Yet some homeowners do just that, when treating one part of a sidewalk like their own piece of property. Frequently, their methods for scaring people off manage to frighten young children.
That fact serves to spotlight the absurd nature of their efforts to maintain a larger amount of privacy. While the government respects residents’ privacy, it condemns utilization of scare tactics. Too often an attempt to scare people off becomes an effort to harm any trespasser. A homeowner that takes such an approach to maintaining a fair amount of privacy could resort to a tactic that harms others.