A duty of care to protect against criminal violence may arise where a contractor relationship is sufficiently analogous to employment, but the plaintiff must establish both that practicable precautions existed and that those precautions would probably have prevented the injury. Where the criminal acted irrationally, the causal link between the defendant's omissions and the plaintiff's injury may be broken even where breach is established.
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