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When you are out shopping or on vacation, the last thing you are thinking about is avoiding a slip, trip, and fall incident. But every year, hundreds of people in Georgia suffer disabling injuries when they slip and fall on someone else's property.
Here at TB & Associates, LLC, our core business is to help you recover the compensation you need to overcome a slip and fall injury. Our personal injury law firm has recovered millions of dollars for our clients and we want to put that experience to work for you. If you or a loved one has been injured in Georgia, call us today – we're here for you!
Types of Slip-and-Fall Accidents
Slip, trip, and fall accidents can happen anywhere that people congregate: stores, restaurants, office buildings, and public parks—even sidewalks in front of homes. The majority of slip and fall injuries occur because property owners failed to take reasonable steps to maintain their property in a safe condition.
A slip, trip, and fall accident can result from a dangerous condition on the premises that was either created by the owner's negligence or made worse by natural conditions such as snow or ice. Slip-and-fall injury accidents may involve:
- Wet floors
- Broken stairs and missing handrails
- Loose rugs and mats, torn carpeting Aisles with poor lighting or obscured signage
- Faulty overhead lights or lack of light at all
- Dangerous spills Slippery surfaces created by spilled liquids such as grease, oil, blood, water, ice
Legal Responsibility for Slip and Fall Injuries
Property owners have a legal responsibility to maintain their property reasonably safe, which includes keeping it free of dangerous conditions that could lead to a slip and fall accident. If the owner knew about the hazardous condition but did nothing to correct it, this is called "constructive knowledge."
If the hazardous condition was hidden or latent, it is still the property owner's responsibility. Even if an accident victim did not actually see the hazard in the floor, reasonable care on behalf of a business owner means that no hazards should be lurking where customers are expected to walk.
Even if a slip and fall accident does not result in any physical injuries, the property owner is still legally responsible for any resulting financial losses. This includes medical expenses, out-of-pocket costs for transportation to see a doctor or go shopping, lost wages from time off work while recovering from an injury, and so on.
Who You Can Sue For a Slip, Trip, and Fall Injury
Slip-and-fall injuries are often the result of more than one person or business being legally responsible. For instance, if you slip on a sidewalk that has not been cleared of snow, you may have a claim against both the property owner who is responsible for cleaning it and against the city and town that failed to send a snowplow.
You may be able to recover compensation for your deep tissue injury if the employee who cleared the sidewalk used too much salt or not enough shoveling!
Another common scenario is when multiple parties are responsible for an obstructed view of an area where people walk. For instance, if tall planters or signs prevent a driver and passengers in a car from seeing crosswalks, this could be a case of negligence on the part of both property owners who install or maintain such obstructions and drivers who fail to take care when entering traffic.
The same is true if an area inside (such as a restaurant seating area) or outside (a public park) an establishment is in poor condition and someone falls.
These scenarios are examples of what is known as "shared fault," which means that the injured person may be able to recover a percentage of damages from all parties responsible for injury, based on their relative degree of legal responsibility.
Let Our Slip and Fall Injury Lawyers Fight for You
If you or a loved one has suffered injuries in a slip, trip, and fall accident at someone else's property, the experienced personal injury attorneys at TB & Associates, LLC can help. Whether your accident happened because of slippery conditions due to snow or ice, poorly lit stairs, or other hazardous conditions, you are entitled to financial compensation for your pain and suffering.
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