How to document snow removal to protect against slip and fall lawsuits
Property managers must manually log every instance of shoveling, salting, and brining to protect against liability when tenants try to sue over ice and snow injuries. Having these precise written records and pavement photos proves crucial during legal depositions and can lead to dropped lawsuits, even though tracking every single snowfall feels tedious.
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- 1Following management directives to maintain manual paper trails and logsDid this help you?
- 2Using snow logs and photos of salted pavement to defend against slip-and-fall claimsDid this help you?
In their words
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“2 weeks ago we had meeting and the President of the firm wants us to track each time the snow falls so we keep track of when we shovel.”source ↗
“Is this an overkill?”source ↗
“I've had to answer questions under oath in a lawsuit deposition on a slip and fall. I had written records and the lawsuit was dropped.”source ↗
“I had a resident slip downhill at 5am on ice and try to sue us. Snow logs showing we salted and brined 15 hours before the injury, and photos of blue salt on the pavement the day of the injury was extremely helpful in court.”source ↗
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