Invitee

Invitee

An invitee is a individual who is invited to enter and remain on the premises for a commercial benefit to the possessor of premises, or for a purpose directly or indirectly associated with business dealings with the possessor. An invitation may be either express or implied. A consumer in a department store is an invitee, because the department store actively invites the public to come to the premises and to buy merchandise when on the premises. A premises owner owes the highest duty of care to the invitee.

Typically, a possessor has a duty to use ordinary care to warn or otherwise protect an invitee from risks of harm from a condition on the possessor's premises if the risk of harm is unreasonable, and the possessor is aware of or in the exercise of ordinary care should be aware of the condition, and must understand that it involves an unreasonable risk of harm to an invitee.

The possessor can have a duty to periodically check the premises for the introduction of hazards to invitees. For instance, a grocery store may be obligated to regularly check the floors for the presence of spilled or broken merchandise, and to ensure that its products are not likely to fall from its shelves.

If you are an invitee and have suffered injuries on another’s property, contact a Evans, GA premises liability attorney.

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