Slip and Fall or Trip and Fall Injuries (Premises Liability Cases)

Originally published by Desiree Sykes.

Slip and fall accidents are a particular type of personal injury case. A slip and fall injury refers to situations when someone slips, trips or falls as a result of a dangerous or hazardous condition on someone else’s property and is injured. It includes injuries resulting from falls caused by water, ice or snow, or other slippery substances on a surface, as well as abrupt changes in flooring, poor lighting, or a hidden hazard, such as a gap or hard to see hole in the ground.

Proving Who’s at Fault for a Slip and Fall Incident

It is sometimes difficult to prove who is at fault for a slip and fall accident. Often, the key question in slip and fall cases is whether someone else, such as the property owner, was actually negligent by causing or failing to prevent the slip and fall accident. Another critical issue is whether the injured person’s own actions somehow caused or contributed to the accident. In order to hold another party responsible for injuries suffered in a slip and fall accident, an injured person must typically prove one of the following:

• A property owner (or their employee) should have recognized a dangerous condition (such as broken stairs or an uneven walking surface) and removed or repaired the potential danger, but did not; OR
• A property owner (or their employee) actually caused the dangerous condition leading to the slip and fall accident, for example, by leaving a hazardous obstacle in a walking path, and it was reasonably foreseeable that someone would trip and fall due to the condition.

Slip and fall accidents are complicated claims and there are many factors to take into consideration when pursuing a personal injury claim. If you have been injured in a slip and fall accident and think you have a claim, the Kuzmich Law Firm, P.C. can help you determine if you have a viable personal injury case. Steve Kuzmich is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Litigation and this has been the core of his practice for over 23 years.

Steve Kuzmich is a Board Certified – Personal Injury Trial Lawyer by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. The Kuzmich Law Firms’ focus practice areas are auto and trucking accidents, wrongful death and other serious injuries, injuries caused by drunk drivers, injuries to children and the elderly, (slip and fall accidents) premises liability, and dog bite cases. For further information about personal injury litigation, contact us today at 972.434.1555.

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