{"id":442,"date":"2014-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/can-a-retailer-be-held-liable-for-black-friday-injuries\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:34:33","slug":"can-a-retailer-be-held-liable-for-black-friday-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-a-retailer-be-held-liable-for-black-friday-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a retailer be held liable for Black Friday injuries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the most fanatic shopper, Black Friday (and in some cases, Gray Thursday) is like the Super Bowl of shopping dates. There are likely weeks of planning and training, as well as time taken out to stake a spot for the most coveted of deals. For what is probably a thrill to get a fabulous deal may also come with substantial danger. After all, there is a story every year about someone getting injured in a Black Friday sale.<\/p>\n<p>So when a patron is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/premises-liability.html\">injured<\/a> in these situations, can the retailer be held liable? Of course, it depends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of law, retailers have a duty to keep patrons safe from hazards while shopping on the retailer\u2019s premises. Essentially, they have to use reasonable care in keeping customers from being injured by hazards they knew about or should have known about. Common hazards include spills, broken glass and flooring that has become unstable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-a-retailer-be-held-liable-for-black-friday-injuries\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can a retailer be held liable for Black Friday injuries?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the most fanatic shopper, Black Friday (and in some cases, Gray Thursday) is like the Super Bowl of shopping dates. There are likely weeks of planning and training, as well as time taken out to stake a spot for the most coveted of deals. For what is probably a thrill to get a fabulous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premises-liability","tag-premises-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can a retailer be held liable for Black Friday injuries? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 2, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can a retailer be held liable for Black Friday injuries? - Premises Liability - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-a-retailer-be-held-liable-for-black-friday-injuries\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Can a retailer be held liable for Black Friday injuries? 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