Slip/Trip and Fall Cases

I have had a run of clients in the last few weeks all with slip and fall cases. I have not written any blogs about these types of cases before so this will be new.

What does it take to have a good slip and fall claim?  This is a short description:

1. The person in charge of the place where the slip happened must either have caused the dangerous, unsafe condition, or
2. had adequate time to discover and fix the danger regardless of who caused it, and failed to discover it, and
3. failed to correct the danger or warn about the danger.

Let me give you a couple of examples of good cases I have handled meeting the litmus test above:

1. Trip and fall at Volusia Mall.  Mall hired a painting crew to re-blacktop the parking lot. In so doing, the crew used nails and string  to help paint the yellow parking  stripes, and forgot to remove the nails when they were done.  RESULT:  client tripped on a nail while crossing the parking lot and had a bad fall.
2. Slip and fall at grocery store:  Store employee discovers a puddle of milk on the floor and leaves the puddle unattended to go get a Warning sign.  While he was away a customer comes around an aisle and slips in the milk.
3. Slip and fall at Mall:  Roof leaks every time it rains.  Rain drips from ceiling tiles to floor below and puddles.  Mall knows of leaking roof, and knows about puddles when it rains, and fails to fix the leak or put out warning signs.  Customer slips in the puddled water and falls sustaining a head injury.

So, if you have had a bad fall and wanted to know whether the property owner is at fault, here are some good rules of law for you know about!  An experienced personal injury lawyer can explain it in a few minutes.