Litigation attorney Cullen McKinney is a founding partner of Tanoury Nauts McKinney & Garbarino in Detroit, Michigan. Among the areas of practice that Cullen McKinney focuses on is premises liability. This concept is often involved in personal injury cases, when the aggrieved party must prove the property owner was negligent in keeping the premises safe. Simply being injured on a property does not necessarily indicate negligence, nor does the existence of an unsafe condition always constitute negligence. In order to prove negligence, a personal injury lawyer must establish that the owner knew or should have known of a hazardous condition and did not address it. In some states, however, the duty of the owner is determined by the type of person who is on the property. Visitors are individuals who have the owner’s permission to visit the premises. Invitees are persons like friends, family, or neighbors, for whom the owner is expected to provide a reasonable standard of care. Licensees are persons like sales representatives, who are visiting for their own purposes, that the owner must simply warn. Trespassers are uninvited or unauthorized persons. Owners traditionally owe them no duty unless they are children.
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AuthorA founding partner and principal of the law firm Tanoury, Nauts, McKinney & Dwaihy, PLLC, in Detroit, Michigan, attorney Cullen McKinney provides trial defense for individuals and corporations involved in civil litigation cases before the Wayne County and Oakland County Circuit Courts. Archives
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