What does a slip-and-fall claim look like in real life? What kinds of fact patterns do plaintiffs’ attorneys encounter in slip-and-fall accidents?
Here, we present some examples of real slip-and-fall settlements.
You can learn more about the compensation you might receive for physical injuries from a slip and fall accident you experienced by using our Personal Injury Calculator.
After a four-year-old girl died from injuries after falling from a third-floor college dormitory window, her parents sued the college, the dormitory management company, and the window manufacturer based on the window’s lack of child safety devices.
The college denied liability, but agreed to settle the lawsuit for $2 million, paid by the college’s insurer.
A school employee slipped and fell when she slipped on a recently applied adhesive coating placed on the school floor.
She landed on her back, causing her to be diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome and nerve damage.
The plaintiff alleged in a lawsuit that she received no warning about the presence of the transparent and slippery coating that had been applied to the floor minutes before.
She reached a settlement with the school for $5 million.
Although it may seem that a slip and fall case is a straightforward matter of showing that the plaintiff fell and was injured on the defendant’s property, these claims are not automatic winners.
Slip-and-fall liability is not strict liability, and you can expect property owners to put up a vigorous defense to claims that they were negligent.
A department store customer who fell while in a store dressing room sued the store for injuries to her left arm, shoulder, and hip.
The plaintiff claimed in a personal injury lawsuit that the floor was “unusually shiny” as proof of the existence of a hazardous condition even though she testified in a pretrial deposition that she did not see any foreign substance on the floor.
The store asked the court to summarily dismiss the lawsuit, based on the argument that the slip and fall plaintiff had not established that a hazardous condition actually existed. The court agreed, and dismissed the case before trial.
If you have been injured on someone else’s property in any way, not just based on a literal slip-and-fall accident, you may have a case for compensation if the owner’s negligence caused or contributed to the injuries you sustained.
To bolster your chances of receiving maximum fair compensation in settlement negotiations, if you are hurt on the property of another, you should take steps to begin gathering as much evidence as you can as soon as you can before the property owner can clean up the accident scene.
This includes:
Stone Rose Law slip-and-fall accident attorneys can help you understand your legal rights in the aftermath of a slip-and-fall accident in Arizona and help you recover compensation for the harm you have suffered.
A personal injury lawyer can guide you in determining what your physical injury damages and lost wages may be, as well as if you have claims for non-economic damages like pain and suffering, mental anguish, or even punitive damages if the property owner’s behavior was especially egregious.
We cannot guarantee that you will get a settlement for a slip-and-fall lawsuit, but we can guarantee that you won’t receive compensation if you don’t take any legal action.
Call us today at (480) 631-3025 or use our online contact form to speak with an experienced attorney about your slip and fall accident.
