Suing for a Slip and Fall Accident

27 Dec Suing for a Slip and Fall Accident

If you are injured in a slip and fall accident, contacting a personal injury lawyer is one of your options. A personal injury attorney, however, cannot help in all instances. What's important is whether or not the property owner had liability for the premises at which you are injured. If you can establish that the premise owner was negligent in some regard, you may be able to get money from a lawsuit.

Many people who sue over slip and fall accidents have their accident in a retail establishment. It may be a grocery store, a clothing store or a discount store. Some of the most common culprits of slip and fall accidents are wet flooring, pallets of goods that are left out in the aisles, products that are not shelved and are left out in the aisles and other hazards. When you walk into a retail establishment, you have a reasonable expectation of safety. If you are not provided with a safe environment, and if you're injured because of that, you may be able to sue.

When you file a lawsuit, your attorney will have to establish to a jury that negligence played a part in your injury. Negligence doesn't mean being incompetent and it doesn't mean being careless. Negligence means that somebody failed in their duties in a way that cause someone else to come to harm. Nobody is expecting anyone to take extraordinary measures to protect anybody's safety. When somebody is sued over negligence, it's because they didn't take the types of actions that reasonable people could have been expected to take.

You will have to consult with an attorney before they will be able to determine whether or not they want to take your claim. There are definitely cases that attorneys will want nothing to do with. If they feel that you are going to lose your claim, they will certainly turn you down. Attorneys who work on personal injury cases tend to work on contingency. This means that they don't get paid if they don't win your claim. It also means that they're not about to charge you legal fees for pursuing a case they know is going to lose in the first place.

A good attorney can help people who have been injured due to the negligent actions of others, including negligence that ends up causing slip and fall injuries. If you have been so injured, contacting an attorney may be a good option for you.