Mere ownership does not make one liable for injuries sustained by persons who have entered on land, even though the owner has invited them to enter. An owner or occupier who has exclusive control over premises must inspect the premises and discover dangerous conditions that would be apparent to a person conducting a prudent inspection. An invitee is entitled to expect that the owner or occupant will take reasonable care to know the actual condition of the premises and, having discovered the condition, will either make it reasonably safe by repair or warn of the dangerous condition and the risk involved. A landowner has a duty to provide a business invitee with safe ingress and egress to its property. Ingress means the entrance or way onto the premises.
Egress means the exit or way off the premises.
Ordinarily, a landowner does not have a duty to warn an invitee of a danger located off the premises. But if the actual location of the hazard is immediately adjacent to the place of ingress or egress from the premises, the landowner has a duty to warn of the danger or protect against the danger in order to provide its invitees with a safe way onto and off the premises. If the danger, however, is so apparent that a business invitee can reasonably be expected to notice it and protect against it, the condition itself constitutes adequate warning and the landowner has no further duty to warn or protect the invitee. A business invitee must maintain a proper lookout for hazards on the premises. This duty implies a duty to see things that are in plain view.