The Difficult Cases of Slip & Fall

Personal injury cases consist of different cases where the 2 most popular and common cases are slip & fall and cases of car accident. Both these cases lead to injuries but are different from the legal perspective.

Cases involving car crashes are not that complicated where there are 2 damaged cars. One of the drivers is issued a ticket that establishes fault while the other one is injured because of the impact. Liability is already established and the injury cause as well so the main duty of the injury attorney is to make sure that the client gets the maximum compensation from the concerned insurance company. With the already proven legal issues, lawyers only need to focus on 1 element i.e. damages.
Cases involving ‘Premises Liability’ generally consist of trip & fall and slip & fall cases. A lot of things need to be proved with nothing in offering.

Take for example Katy’s case where she went to buy some vegetables from a store located on Palm Avenue. She was at the store only to buy a few items for dinner and walked to the fruit department to buy some apples. Unknown to Katy some blueberries were lying on floor that fell from the vine. She stepped on it, slipped and fell injuring her back.

At that time the store was quite empty and nobody noticed Katy fall. Awfully embarrassed she left the store in a hurry. But within a span of few hours, Katy’s whole body was aching and she felt terrible. Katy came back to store and filled a report about the incident with manager.
After that Katy felt that she could get medical treatment in case there were serious injuries with the help of some personal injury attorney.
But it would be hard to believe that Katy was there in the store as nobody watched her fall. The evidence captured through the surveillance cameras could be erased. The fact that Katy was wearing shoes with high heels and not giving much of attention to what was lying on the floor could also be used by defense on grounds of comparative negligence. Apart from that Katy did not report to the store’s staff immediately about the incident. Many stores have a specific time interval for sweeping floors and it might have happened that Katy fell between that intervals. So it is extremely important to document everything immediately so that it can be presented as viable case.

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