Invitee

Invitee

The invitee is the individual who is invited to get in or remain on the premises for a commercial benefit to the possessor of premises, or for a reason directly or indirectly associated with business dealings with the possessor. An invitation may be either express or implied. A customer in a department store is an invitee, because the department store actively invites the public to come to the premises and to purchase merchandise while on the premises. A premises owner has the highest duty of care to the invitee.

Generally, the possessor has a duty to use ordinary care to warn or otherwise protect an invitee from risks of harm resulting from a condition on the possessor’s premises if the risk of harm is unreasonable, and the possessor is aware of or in the exercise of ordinary care must be aware of the condition, and ought to understand that it involves an unreasonable risk of harm to an invitee.

The possessor can have a duty to regularly inspect the premises for new hazards to invitees. For example, a grocery store may be obligated to regularly check the floors for the presence of spilled or broken merchandise, and to ensure that its products are not likely to fall from its shelves.

If you are an invitee and have suffered injuries on another’s property, contact a Augusta, Georgia premises liability attorney.

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