A rental tenant injury is bodily damage sustained by a tenant within their home, which the tenant resides in but does not own or maintain. If the tenant is filing a tenant injury lawsuit, it means they are claiming that they themselves are not liable, but that their landlord is. The central premise of such a claim is that the landlord acted negligently, thus caused the tenant's injury. In order to file this lawsuit successfully, negligence must be proven like in any other lawsuit, proving three elements – a duty of care, a breach of this duty, and a cause of injury resulting from this breach. Tenant injury lawsuits often transpire when the landlord failed to properly maintain the home, causing an unsafe residence and resulting injuries.