I was accidentally injured on a job by a coworker, who is responsible for medical bills?
The company is, as per Indian laws (some laws covering manufacturing companies, The Factories Act, The Workmen Compensation Act). The moment you start working for a company, there is an implied contract, the employer is responsible. Take legal help and sue their asses off, unless you did something silly in the first place.
I wrecked my car running a errand for my work are they responsible for it?
If you were responsible for the damage, then you are responsible for paying for it. However if you damaged someone else's car or injured someone, then both you and the employer are liable, assuming you were required to take your vehicle instead of a company vehicle and that you were required to run the errand. If someone else hit you, then that person's insurance is responsible.
If someone sneaks onto my property and gets injured, am I liable?
The answer is maybe, maybe not. In many places a swimming pool is considered an attractive nuisance and you are now on record having foreseen the risk that someone might enter your property and be harmed by it. Children cannot be reasonably expected to appreciate risks in the same way as adults.Finally, whether you are liable or not, you can expect a lawsuit should something happen.Most building laws and insurance policies require you to fence the pool in a manner that small children cannot easily evade. You say you bought a pool. That tells me it is an above-ground pool. There are special measures for above-ground pools.The first thing to do is update your insurance policy. You will be paying more. You do need full liability and property coverage. Along with that, investigate recommended safety measures—both protective and rescue equipment are needed.If you are fenced with barbed wire, you must be in a rural area. Barbed wire fencing is generally designed to control cattle, not people. It isn’t hard to get over, under, or through it. It is not enough for a pool.
Can you be held responsible?
I am a member of a swim and tennis club. On some holiday's the club might provide one batch of frozen alcoholic drinks. Then other members chip in and buy some more. If someone has too much to drink, could the club be responsible if they got into an accident? I would think it is personal responsibilty! Your thoughts?
If mover is injured on property is a renter liable?
My husband and I are renting the second floor of a single family house from his uncle who owns the property. We are moving within the next month and plan to hire movers. We have a living room set that needs to be moved, but when it was delivered, the delivery men said they could only bring it up using the back steps (there are a lot of tight corners if you go up the front way. Two years later, the very steep back steps are starting to look rotted and I am concerned that there may be an issue with movers going down them with heavy furniture. Our landlord is aware of the condition of the steps and refuses to do anything about it. My question is if god forbid, a step broke and our mover was injured, would we be liable as the ones that hired the movers or would the owner/landlord be responsible? This is in Connecticut BTW. Thanks!
Who do you think is MOST responsible for health & safety on a job?
The Employers, supervisors and the employee are responsible. The employee is the most responsible one though. I say that because if their is a safety issue, normally they see it first. If they see it and ignore the problem, then they are at fault. If they report the problem to a supervisor and the supervisor does nothing, then they are responsible. You statement When someone gets injured on the job, it's usually not anyone's 'fault'" true? What do you think and why? In the above situation: Say an employee worked in a restaurant and saw there was water spilled on the floor, and another employee came and slipped on the water, who's fault is it?
If someone injured themselves in a public park, could the city be liable?
It could be, although it might be unlikely under the circumstances.In general, the determination of whether or not the city might be liable would follow a pretty standard negligence analysis. The city and/or the city parks department might have some duty of care to remove hazardous conditions or to warn users of the park away from concealed hazardous conditions.I would venture to say that users of the park would be considered "licensees" under this analysis, which means that the city would have a duty to warn licensees of concealed hazards where the city knows of those hazards. However, the city would probably not have the duty to act to remove or discover hazardous conditions.There's also some argument that might be raised that a person who walks into an area like a park should be on notice that certain potential normal and natural hazards might exist (such as concealed rocks in the grass) and that the person has assumed some or all of that risk.What all this should make clear is that the city isn't going to be liable for every bad thing that happens in a park. The city would need to be found to have been negligent in its operation of the park.
If someone was dying and you could have helped but didn't, are you guilty?
In the United States, the answer is going to be no absent either (a) a special relationship with the victim (e.g., emergency service worker, common carrier, parent of minor child) or (b) special training applicable to the incident. A generic person walking the street who sees another in peril likely has no legal duty to rescue.Nonetheless, in an effort to encourage people to help others, all 50 states have enacted "Good Samaritan" laws, which limit liability for those who provide aid in emergency situations. In other words, there’s no duty for an average citizen to come to the aid of someone else, but if you do so in good faith, you will generally be immune from later suit on the theory that you could have done more/a better job. Note, however, that these laws vary significantly from state to state: some are broad, while others only cover physicians/emergency service technicians or those who are certified in first aid/CPR. Still, contrary to the final episode of Seinfeld, American law creates no duty for average citizens to come to the aide of others.