Kris Olson

A landlord should be granted summary judgment because the commercial lease between it and its tenant assigned the tenant responsibility for maintaining and repairing the parking lot where a plaintiff slipped, and the landlord did not retain sufficient control over a common area linked to the plaintiff’s injury to subject it to liability, a federal judge has decided. In Silvia v. Kohl’s, Inc., et al., the defendant landlord contended that it was entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff’s negligence claim because commercial landlords do not have a duty to maintain a leased premises beyond the terms of the lease, […]

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