SLIPS & FALLS
Watch your step!
Premise liability law pertains to the legal responsibility of owners and occupiers of property for injuries occurring to persons while on their property. Commonly, premise liabilty cases result from trips, slips, and falls on stairs, ice, or a spilled liquid. Owners and occupiers of land are required to exercise reasonable care for the safety of those on their property. In order to satisfy the reasonableness standard, an owner or occupier has a duty to inspect the premises, identify dangerous conditions, and repair or warn others of the hazards on the property. In order to prove such a case, the claimant must show that the owner or occupier has not met that standard. In doing so, the claimant must prove that the owner or occupier knew or should have known of the dangerous condition. This is sometimes difficult to prove and immediate investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident is often necessary.
A common misconception with regard to these types of cases is that an injured person can recover from the property owner or occupier simply because the injury occured on their property. This is untrue. It must be shown that the owner or occupier fell below the standard of care as described above.
An experienced personal injury litigator can quickly determine whether a premises liabilty action may exist against an owner or occupier. It is imperative that you contact an experienced litigator immediately in order to preserve the necessary evidence to support such a claim.
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