Skating Through Snow and Ice Mishaps - A Primer in Massachusetts' Premises Liability Law | Chartwell Law
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Massachusetts has a similar negligence standard to Connecticut but has different laws as applied to landowners in snow and ice liability cases. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) abolished the distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and ice in premises liability cases, abolishing the prior standard whereby owners of land could not be found liable for any natural accumulations of snow and ice. Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., 457 Mass. 368 (2010). After Papadopoulos, Massachusetts courts “ap...
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