LockedInACloset
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? New York
This may be the wrong forum but none fit perfectly.
This evening, my wife went to the fitness center in our Apartment Complex (corporate owned). There is a key fob entry into the fitness center. Upon entering, she set her stuff down and walked through another door to enter a hallway that houses two restrooms (one male, one female). She used the restroom.
When she left the restroom, she found out she was locked in this small hallway. The hallway has two doors. One has a key lock and exits into the rental office. One has a push button lock (the push button lock faces the fitness center, not the hallway) which should have unlocked when she opened the door to go into the bathroom hallway.
She was trapped in this hallway for a bit over an hour before she kicked down the door to enter the rental office and leave the building through the rental office.
I am wondering if there is a liability claim here? There is no way it is up to building/fire codes to have a door that could potentially lock someone in an internal hallway with no egress.
Any suggestions as to what I should do next?
This may be the wrong forum but none fit perfectly.
This evening, my wife went to the fitness center in our Apartment Complex (corporate owned). There is a key fob entry into the fitness center. Upon entering, she set her stuff down and walked through another door to enter a hallway that houses two restrooms (one male, one female). She used the restroom.
When she left the restroom, she found out she was locked in this small hallway. The hallway has two doors. One has a key lock and exits into the rental office. One has a push button lock (the push button lock faces the fitness center, not the hallway) which should have unlocked when she opened the door to go into the bathroom hallway.
She was trapped in this hallway for a bit over an hour before she kicked down the door to enter the rental office and leave the building through the rental office.
I am wondering if there is a liability claim here? There is no way it is up to building/fire codes to have a door that could potentially lock someone in an internal hallway with no egress.
Any suggestions as to what I should do next?