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Ep. 27: Foreseeable Harm · Negligent Security and the Duty to Invitees


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The person at the center of this episode never stole anything. They were a customer — attacked in the parking lot on the way back to their car. In "Foreseeable Harm," Don Carr and Jim Cords widen the season from the suspect to the invitee, breaking down negligent security: the duty a business owes to protect the people it invites in from foreseeable third-party crime. Why customers earn the highest standard of care, how a plaintiff builds foreseeability from your own incident reports and the crime pattern around you, and why these cases turn not on the crime but on whether you took reasonable steps — lighting, cameras, sightlines, patrols. The most damning exhibit is usually the maintenance log showing you knew the light was out. Light the lot.

Loss. Liability. Law.


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