Slip and Fall — $700,000 Result

Premises liability abuse is shorthand people use for harm tied to the physical condition of a nursing home itself: the floors, the lighting, the handrails, the equipment, the doors, the security. The phrase points at the property rather than at a single caregiver's judgment call.

The starting point is control, not the property line. Hosting the show on private land makes the property owner one candidate defendant. It does not make the owner the only one. The event organizer, the pyrotechnic contractor, a firework manufacturer, and in some cases a public entity each played a distinct role in the same show, and the investigation examines each role separately.