Slip and fall accidents are always unexpected. They can strike anywhere, at any time. Sometimes, slip & fall accidents are just accidents. They couldn’t be foreseen and there’s no legal ground to make a recovery. Sometimes, though, slip and fall accidents could be prevented. If you’ve slipped on a wet floor, tripped in a hole in the sidewalk or suffered an injury as a result of some other preventable cause, you may have a slip and fall personal injury case.
When is a Slip and Fall a Personal Injury?
Slip & fall accidents can be tricky to litigate. In order to qualify as a personal injury, you typically have to prove that the owner of the property knew about a potentially dangerous problem and failed to address it. Every case is different, but this element of negligence can be difficult to prove.
When you hire the Law Offices of Philip M. Cohen A.P.C. to litigate your slip and fall accident case, we immediately begin to gather the facts and look for ways to effectively document your case. We may use pictures, weather reports, witness statements or other relevant sources to prove that your accident was preventable.
Examples of preventable slip and fall injury accidents may include:
- Objects left on the floor;
- Defects in the floor that the owner failed to remedy;
- Poor lighting;
- Slippery floor;
- A falling object;
- A malfunctioning door.
In some cases, we can prove that an owner was negligent in a slip and fall case even if they didn’t know about the condition. If a dangerous condition existed on the property, for example, and the owner failed to inspect it regularly and thus didn’t know about it, we might be able to show that the owner was negligent in failing to inspect the property regularly.
Every slip and fall case is different. If you need a slip and fall law firm in the El Cajon, La Mesa or greater San Diego area, give us a call for your free consultation.