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Carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a furnace, space heater, water heater, fireplace, boiler, or other fuel-burning appliance can support a Utah personal injury or wrongful death claim when a defective product, negligent installation or repair, unsafe rental condition, or another preventable failure caused the exposure. The responsible party is not always the appliance manufacturer; an HVAC contractor, service company, landlord, property manager, installer, or component manuf

A parent who signed a trampoline-park waiver should not automatically assume that a seriously injured child has no claim. Utah Supreme Court decisions have repeatedly recognized a strong public policy against allowing a parent to prospectively release a minor child’s negligence claim, and Utah’s trampoline-park statute separately imposes specific duties involving industry safety standards, supervision, inspections, warning signs, injury records, emergency preparation, and lia

A hotel or resort can be responsible for a guest’s injury when an unsafe condition on the property creates an unreasonable risk and the business fails to take reasonable steps to discover, correct, or protect guests from that danger. The important issue is not simply that someone fell, was assaulted, or was hurt while staying at a hotel. A successful Utah premises-liability claim requires evidence connecting the injury to negligence by the person or company that possessed or

Pedestrian accidents at shopping centers are rarely as simple as “a driver hit a shopper.” The driver may be responsible, but the evidence may also reveal dangerous parking-lot design, poor lighting, blocked sightlines, missing signs, faded crosswalks, defective sidewalks, or a property owner that ignored earlier warnings. A thorough Utah claim therefore examines everyone who controlled the vehicle, the walking route, and the property where the collision occurred. That invest