What is the liability of a customer who is injured in a workplace accident?

New Brunswick, Canada


The following excerpt is from Moreau v Roman Catholic Bishop of Edmundston, 2010 NBQB 239 (CanLII):

Customers at a place of business have a duty to take reasonable care to ensure their own safety and if a customer fails in this duty and consequently contributes to his or her injuries, that customer must be apportioned a share of the fault for the harm suffered (see McAllister v. Wal-Mart Canada Inc.).

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