22.6.5 Owner Liability for Contractors.

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

22.6.5 Owner Liability for Contractors. A key area of premises liability law is a landowner’s liability for the negligence of a contractor in creating dangerous conditions upon land. As a general rule, a landowner is not liable for the negligence of an independent contractor.⁷⁷ This is true even where the owner retains the right to inspect, approve, and program the contractor’s work; the landowner is liable when he has a right to control the independent contractor’s work or is somehow independently negligent.⁷⁸ Nor is control over the premises enough to subject the landowner to vicarious liability for a contractor’s...