{"id":30466,"date":"2012-09-25T18:17:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagners1.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/slip-and-falls-and-the-occupiers-liability-act\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:17:22","slug":"slip-and-falls-and-the-occupiers-liability-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/blog\/slip-and-falls-and-the-occupiers-liability-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Slip and Falls and the Occupiers Liability Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"page-header\"><\/div>\nA significant number of personal injury claims are those referred to as \u201cslip and falls,\u201d in which someone has been injured on someone else\u2019s premises. In Nova Scotia, these cases are governed by the<em> Occupier\u2019s Liability Act<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>\n\nUnder the Act, an occupier is someone either in possession of a premises, or whom is responsible for and has control over the premises (both control over the conditions and over whom is permitted on\/in the premises). Notably, there may be more than one occupier of a premises. Further, a premise encompasses water, ships, vessels, land, structures (except for portable structures and equipment), trailers, other portable structures, railway cars, vehicles, and aircrafts (except while in operation).\n\nThe <em>Occupiers\u2019 Liability Act <\/em>provides that there are certain specified duties of an occupier, namely that the occupier must take care, as is reasonable to the circumstances, to ensure people on the premises are reasonably safe while on the property.\n\n<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <em>Occupiers\u2019 Liability Act<\/em>, RSNS 1996, c.27.\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant number of personal injury claims are those referred to as \u201cslip and falls,\u201d in which someone has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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