Skotnicki, G. v. Insurance Department

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] landlord who voluntarily undertakes to provide security measures may be liable if he negligently performs the undertaking.”
• “[A] landlord who voluntarily undertakes to provide security measures may be liable if he negligently performs the undertaking.”
• \[T]he voluntary undertaking exception invokes section 323 [of the Restatement (Second) of Torts (1965)] and may be applicable when a landlord's actions are more attenuated.\
• \The affirmative acts exception is limited to situations where the landlord's direct action increases a tenant's risk of harm from criminal activities.\
• \Negligence is not actionable unless it is a proximate cause of the injury.\ (quoting Bishop v. Dep't of Mental Health, 331 S.C. 79, 88, 502 S.E.2d 78, 83 (1998))
• \It is well-settled in South Carolina that a landlord generally does not owe an affirmative duty to a tenant to provide security in and around leased premises to protect the tenant from the criminal activity of third parties.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).