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I own a lot in a apartment Building. And the subject of Personal Injury, in common property raised my attention, after reading an article. So who is liable if an accident/injury occurs in a Building’s common property.
-Owner’s Corporation
– OC Executive Commitee
-The strata management agency of the building
-No one except you who suffered the injury
-A few hypothetical scenario”s
-I have a swimming pool in my Building. The swimming Pool water has made me sick, as the OC failed to get the pool water serviced, or new chlorine added quarterly, something like that.
-Or I trip on a pothole in the carpark, a big pot hole that should really be closed up with concrete!
So in a hypothetical scenario who is generally liable, and accept Liability.
-And are payments made if it’s the OC is found Liable, by there Public Liability insurance, which im certain now in NSW in 2013, all OC’s would have to have Public Liability Insurance surely! Or do they have to make payement by raising a Levy and hitting Owner’s of Lot’s in that specific Building’s hip pockets, to cover the civil claim?
A few thoughts there to discuss and some answers would be good, as it’s got me thinking about apartment building’s and what would happen if a Personal injury occurred on common property of a building
