Landowners have different degrees of responsibility to different
classifications of people who come onto their property. There
are three main classifications of people that the law
recognizes: invitees, licensees, and trespassers. Invitees - An
Invitee is a person who is invited onto property for business
reasons, such as customers of a business and job applicants.
Property owners owe the highest degree of care to invitees to
make sure they are safe from danger, including criminal
assaults. What this means is that the property owner not only
has a duty to repair and correct known dangers - he also has a
duty to reasonably inspect for, discover, and correct unknown
hazards in those areas of the premises that are not obviously or
clearly labeled "off-limits." These legal principles simply mean
that the property owner or storeowner has a duty to take
reasonable actions to ensure that the environment is safe to
patrons. Unfortunately there is no precise way to measure what
is reasonable. The law defines "reasonab