Personal Injury & Torts
Feb. 2, 2001
Careful Care
Courts have held that when someone who is under no obligation to provide a service voluntarily undertakes to do so, he will be regarded as having assumed a duty.
In California, the general rule is that landlords will not have a duty of providing security guards or other burdensome and expensive security measures to protect those on their property from violent crime absent "prior similar incidents." In fact, absent some indicia making violent crime on ...
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