Katz v. Westchester County Healthcare Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*713A property owner has a duty to maintain his or her property in a reasonably safe condition (see Basso v Miller, 40 NY2d 233, 241 [1976]). However, a property owner has no duty to protect or warn against an open and obvious condition, which as a matter of law is not inherently dangerous (see Tyz v First St. Holding Co., Inc., 78 AD3d 818 [2010]; Weiss v Half Hollow Hills Cent. School Dist., 70 AD3d 932 [2010]; Bretts v Lincoln Plaza Assoc., Inc., 67 AD3d 943 [2009]; Neville v 187 E. Main St., LLC, 33 AD3d 682 [2006]; Cupo v Karfunkel, 1 AD3d 48 [2003]). Whether a hazard is open and obvious…
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