The failure of a landlord or a private business to adequately and fully clean a crime or accident scene after the occurrence of such an incident could result in the imposition of liability against that party. If a crime occurs in an apartment, for instance, and blood or other organic tissue is not completely removed a real problem could ensue if that person who bled had been ill. Should a subsequent tenant contract an illness or rash or something it could be attributable to the improper cleanup. Then the landlord could be liable for leasing a space that is unfit for habitation.
The procurement of a crime scene cleaning company, accident scene cleaning company, blood scene cleaning company, trauma scene cleaning company, homicide scene cleaning company, suicide scene cleaning company, meth lab cleaning company and bio hazard cleaning company that performs a thorough decontamination and attests to such can effectively serve as a defense to any such liability. Their insurance can also provide a liability shield for the landlord.
As for crimes or accidents that occur in a public space or a governmental agencies building the calculus could be different. The controlling factor in such situations is whether the public agency has any conferred immunity from some state statute or even constitution. Frequently, state constitutional or statutory provisions will protect cities, counties or states from liability for the failure to adequately make sanitary a public property after a crime or accident.
There are some exceptions, however, wherein gross negligence, evidenced by an obvious permission of a dangerous condition to persist, could revoke, or act as an exception to, the usual immunity. In these instances, the governmental agency would also be wise to bring in professional crime scene cleaners, accident scene cleaners, homicide scene cleaners or death scene cleaners, suicide scene cleaners, meth lab scene cleaners and blood scene cleaners to take care of a particular condition.
This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.
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