Our clients frequently ask about the community’s potential legal liability for conditions and activities in the common areas or for claims asserting negligence. This article summarizes those legal standards and some of the considerations and criteria which may affect a community’s responsibility. The legal standards based on premises liability and general negligence concepts are well-settled and consistent. While those legal standards can be easily summarized, an association’s level of responsibility is never absolute one way or another because the legal standards must be applied to different factual scenarios.    Read the article………………