If you are a tenant, and have suffered an accident in the property in which you live, you may be entitled to pursue compensation against your landlord.
Landlords, by law, owe a duty of care to anyone who enters their premises and they must ensure that the property is safe and does not pose a danger to anyone who visits the property.
You may be entitled to claim for a whole range of accidents, where a landlord has not fulfilled this duty, including incidents where glass doors have not had safety-glass fitted; fences have not been constructed, maintained, repaired to safety standards; cupboards have fallen off loose hinges; broken floorboards etc and, in each case, personal injury has resulted. The list is not exhaustive.
The type of injury resulting from a landlord’s negligence, may manifest itself in a less obvious form such as the contracting of an illness or a disease, for example carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, a deterioration of living accommodation may cause tenants to suffer ill-health, and a landlord can be liable for a claimant’s illness if he/she has neglected their duties to regularly maintain the property.
The vast majority of landlords will have taken out a form of liability insurance, and so any claim for compensation arising out of a landlord’s breach of duty should be recoverable in its entirety.
If you feel you have sustained injury as a result of your landlord’s failure to provide a safe property, it may be prudent to contact a specialist injury solicitor who can advise on the merits of your particular claim on a true no win, no fee* basis.
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