When you are a tenant in a rental home or apartment complex, you have every right to expect a certain level of security and safety. Therefore, if you suffered injuries in an attack on the premises, you could have the right to pursue compensation in an injury claim against your landlord. Legal negligence occurs if the landlord knew or should have known the potential for danger or criminal acts in the area in which you live. Regardless of this fact, they failed to act despite reasonable foreseeability of an assault, and you suffered injuries and losses.