happen when someone slips or trips and subsequently falls on someone else's property due to a dangerous or hazardous condition. Conditions leading to these kinds of injuries can include:
- Foreign substances
- Water
- Uneven flooring or sidewalks
- Poor lighting
- Violation of an applicable building code
- Some other hazard
When a person falls down, slips, or trips due to the negligence of another individual or business, a slip and fall injury has occurred. Slip And fall accidents are in the category of premises liability" cases.
In order to recover for a slip and fall accident, plaintiffs must generally prove that the property owners either caused the injury by either failing to maintain the property, creating unsafe conditions which caused the injury, or failing to alert visitors and tenants to their knowledge of a dangerous hazard or unsafe premises.
The bottom line is no two slip-and-fall cases are ever the same and you don't want to choose a lawyer who will take a cookie-cutter approach to your slip-and-fall case. Every slip-and-fall case is fact-specific and fact-dependent. If you were injured on someone else's property, call John Anderson Law at 949-492-9944