An appeals court has reinstated a claim against the Buffalo Bills, Erie County and a company hired to handle security in parking lots around the team’s stadium in Orchard Park for their possible liability in an accident in which a pedestrian was injured while walking to a Bills’ game.

The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, panel said the contract between the Bills and the security company, called the Apex Group, raised unanswered questions over whether the team entirely displaced its duty for security over the parking lot or retained overall administrative control.