There are three primary types of legal status for Arizona slip and fall injuries. These include:
Licensee: If you have been invited onto another’s property for a non-business purpose, you are a licensee. An example would be if you were invited to a friend’s home for a Christmas party. As a licensee, you are entitled to protection from dangerous or hazardous conditions—or if such conditions exist, there must be clear warning signs.
Invitee: You are there through implied consent if you are on public property for business purposes or in a retail establishment. Invitees are afforded a high level of protection from dangerous conditions. As with licensees, warning signs must be clearly posted if there is a hazardous condition on the property.
Trespasser: If you are on private property without permission, you are not owed any degree of protection from dangerous conditions. There are, however, certain exceptions to this rule. Children are one exception—if the property has what is known as an “attractive nuisance” (like a swimming pool) that children would want to play in, the property owner must take care to have the pool properly fenced. Likewise, there should be no dangerous items like an old refrigerator on the property as a child could get locked inside and suffocate. Property owners are also not allowed to purposely set up “traps” on their property that could injure adults or children.