If you are shopping or dining at a restaurant, the proprietor, manager, or property owner is responsible for warning you about known hazards, repairing them, and routinely inspecting for hidden hazards. Anytime you are benefiting a property owner, they have the highest duty to you when you visit. If your visit is a social call, the owner must still warn you of known dangers but is not obligated to repair them. And if you are an adult trespasser, the owner has no duty to ensure your safety, but they cannot purposely injure you.
Premises liability law may not be the first notion that comes to mind if you slip on a banana peel at the local Trader Joe’s, fall, and break a bone or end up with a concussion. At Barrios Virguez Attorneys: Accident & Injury Law, your well-being as our client and neighbor compels our injury attorneys to defend what matters, you and your family. We are happy to sit down with you and explain your rights during a free consultation with our talented intake specialist working in tandem with a Johns Creek slip and fall lawyer.
What Are Examples of Slip and Fall Accidents in Georgia?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that one out of five falls result in serious injury. If you hit your head in a fall, the medical consequences can include a traumatic brain injury (TBI), concussion, broken neck, and brain swelling, all of which can be life-threatening and require immediate medical attention. Some common slip and fall accidents based on negligence include:
- Apartment buildings with buckled carpeting covering unlit stairs
- Cracked and uneven sidewalks the city should be maintaining
- Slippery plumbing leaks in commercial store restrooms with no warning signs
- Food spills in grocery stores that the staff does not mop up for hours
Most commercial operations are insured in anticipation of slip and falls. A skilled attorney will negotiate a suitable settlement on your behalf after reviewing the case facts and your medical reports. If an insurer does not offer enough to cover your losses, we prepare a lawsuit based on negligence. If you slip and fall in Johns Creek because of a property owner’s or employee’s negligence, our lawyers know how much it matters to your family to be fully compensated.
How Negligence Works in Slip and Fall Cases
Negligence in personal injury cases occurs when a property owner fails to act like a reasonable person would act in a similar situation, the substandard behavior is the foreseeable cause of an accident, and someone is injured because of the accident. To prevail in a personal injury lawsuit, your attorney must prove these elements with evidence that can include police reports, eyewitness testimony, medical evaluations, surveillance or cell phone photos and videos, and expert witnesses when advisable.
If a Johns Creek slip and fall attorney wins your case, you will be awarded compensatory damages that are economic and non-economic. Economic damages compensate you for actual, provable losses, such as for your medical bills and lost wages, while non-economic damages provide for intangible losses, such as for the pain you suffer, what it is worth to know you will be disfigured or disabled, your emotional trauma, and the loss of enjoyment of life.
We are committed to meeting our clients’ needs. If you are more comfortable discussing your case in Spanish, we speak Spanish, too. For premium service and a track record of successful representation, we can be of service.
A Johns Creek Slip and Fall Attorney Advocates for Your Family
Our founding attorneys are husband and wife, and they know what it is like to provide and care for a family like yours. If you are injured and cannot work, your financial health may be compromised while you recover. Let us help your family, too. For dedicated legal representation from a Johns Creek slip and fall lawyer, contact Barrios Virguez Attorneys: Accident & Injury Law.
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