Premises cases turn on notice: did the property owner know, or should they have known, about the hazard. That evidence — maintenance logs, inspection sheets, prior incident reports, camera footage on a 30-day overwrite cycle — sits with the property owner and disappears quickly. A letter preserving it in the first weeks is often the difference between a claim and a dead end.
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