To prove that a property owner is liable for your injuries, you must establish the following elements:
- The property owner owed you a duty of care as an invited social or business guest to the property. This duty of care included ensuring that the property was free from hazards that he or she knew about or should have reasonably discovered through routine inspection of the property.
- There was a breach in this duty of care. A hazard existed that was neither repaired nor otherwise mitigated and the property owner failed to warn you of the hazard.
- This breach resulted in the accident which caused your injuries and subsequent expenses and impacts on your life.