OHIO LAWYERS FOR SLIP & FALL ACCIDENTS

Slip and Fall Injury Attorneys

Whether you’re shopping at a store, walking through your apartment complex or visiting a friend’s house, you have every right to safety. Property owners have a duty to keep their properties safe for visitors and residents.

Property owners owe nearly everyone on their property a duty of care, which means they need to properly maintain their properties to prevent visitors from suffering injuries. If you slip, trip or fall on someone else’s property because they failed to uphold their duty, you should be compensated for your injuries.

Proving a Slip and Fall Case

What Does and Doesn’t Count as Negligence in a Slip and Fall

Slip and fall cases are a little different from car, truck or motorcycle accident cases. Just because you were injured on someone else’s property doesn’t necessarily mean they are legally at fault for your injuries. In fact, they might technically be at fault but still not be liable. For you to win compensation, you generally need to show:

• A hazard existed on the property
• The property owner did know or should have known about the hazard
• The property owner or business failed to fix the hazard or warn visitors about the danger
• You were exercising appropriate diligence and caution when your injury occurred

Proving that a hazard existed long enough for the property owner to have discovered and fixed it isn’t always easy. Your case might also be complicated by a property owner or business’s efforts to warn people about the dangers. For example, if you ignore a wet floor sign and then slip on the wet floor and suffer an injury, you might have trouble winning your case.



Slip and Fall Cases Are Complicated

Gathering and preserving evidence can further complicate slip and fall cases. If the property owner or business fixes whatever hazard caused your injury, and you don’t have any evidence to prove it ever existed, you might have trouble proving your case.

When possible, you should always take pictures of whatever caused your slip, trip or fall. Inform the property owner right away, and strongly consider contacting a slip and fall attorney who can begin collecting and safeguarding evidence.