Reseda Premises Liability Attorney

Unsafe conditions like faulty wiring, poorly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents leading to major injury. Businesses and property owners have a vital responsibility to create safe environments for their customers and visitors. This also includes walkways and parking lots, in addition to individuals they employ. Employees are there to serve and sometimes, even protect individuals that visit their places of business. The attorneys at Drake Law Firm, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of businesses or organizations that fail to provide these safe environments.

You can easily suffer injury through no fault of your own when you visit property such as a store, office building, motel or apartment complex. If the owner or occupier of the property knew of a dangerous condition or activity that resulted in your injury and neglected to take timely, practical actions to protect you from it, you might be qualified to recover full compensation for all damage you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Reseda premises liability attorney.

Premises Liability Cases in California

When you work with Drake Law Firm, we will carefully review the facts of your case. We will determine and pursue all of your legal options against the owner or occupier of the property where your injury occurred. Generally, the matters that we will concentrate on include:

• Duty-- Did you lawfully visit the property? For instance, were you a customer at a store, a visitor at a hotel or a social guest at a person's residence? If so, the property owner or occupier owed a duty to exercise ordinary care to make sure that the property was safe for you. In other words, the owner or occupant needed to take reasonable steps to protect you from any dangerous condition on the property that the owner or occupant knew or reasonably should have known about and which you would not have been expected to find on your own.
• Breach-- Did the owner or occupant fail to fix the hazardous condition in a reasonable, timely manner or, at the very least, to warn you about it? If so, the owner failed to fulfill the duty owed to you and could be held legally responsible for your injuries.
• Causation-- Did the carelessness of the owner or occupant contribute to the injuries that you suffered, or did something else-- perhaps your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual injury due to the failure of the property owner or occupant to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you must show that you suffered genuine physical, emotional and/or financial harm.

It is always important to look at the ways a property owner or occupant will attempt to avoid liability. For example, the owner or occupant might claim that you were a trespasser or claim that you sustained injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The attorneys at Drake Law Firm, will be prepared to address those issues and protect your right to full and fair compensation.

Types of Premises Liability Claims in California

A premises liability claim can emerge in various circumstances. A few of the most common premises liability claims that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These incidents typically happen due to wet and slippery floors, poor lighting, broken and uneven sidewalks, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. Additionally, many falls occur because of defects such as broken stairways or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many individuals sustain injuries when improperly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when workers drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, in particular, expose occupants and their visitors to harm when they neglect to conduct routine inspections and remedy concerns such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their neglect violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These accidents typically happen when building owners or tenants fail to routinely inspect and maintain elevators and escalators in stores, shopping centers and office complexes.
• Negligent security-- Many assaults occur in shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, hotels and motels because property owners and managers fail to protect visitors from known security risks, or they hire employees without a sufficient criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings can occur if a property owner or occupier neglects to adequately maintain a pool and features such as slides and diving boards. Pool owners should also use a fence or locked gate to keep out children and prevent the foreseeable risk of an accident.

Compensation in a California Premises Liability Lawsuit

Our goal at Drake Law Firm, will be to secure maximum compensation for you in your premises liability case. We understand how dangerous property conditions can cause individuals to sustain serious, life-changing injuries such as traumatic brain injury, back and spine injuries, fractures, burns and soft tissue injuries. We will work hard to pursue damages on your behalf such as:

• Past and future medical expenses
• Lost wages (including lost future earning capacity)
• Pain and suffering
• Emotional distress
• Wrongful death damages (if you lost your loved one)
• Punitive damages

We will determine all sources of compensation for you and aggressively challenge any attempts by the property owner or occupant (or its insurance company) to blame you for your injuries and reject or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Reseda Premises Liability Attorneys Are Prepared to Help You

At Drake Law Firm, we will move quickly to investigate your case. We work with experienced investigators who can document the scene of your accident, talk with witnesses and locate various other evidence such as surveillance camera footage. We also regularly consult with experts that help us to figure out exactly how a dangerous property condition caused an accident. A big part of our investigation might involve tracking down the identity of the property owner or person that was otherwise in control of the premises where you or a loved one was hurt.

At Drake Law Firm, we've assisted numerous personal injury clients to get the compensation they require to recover. We won't let you accept unfair treatment from other law firms and we will defend you from beginning to end. If you need help with Premises Liability in Reseda, California, give us a call at (844) 513-7253 for a FREE consultation or visit our website at DrakeLawGroup.com to get started on your case today! 

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