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Slip and Fall Injury Lawyer

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1. How Can Berger and Green Help with My Slip and Fall Injury Case?
2. How do I Know If I Am Eligible for Compensation After a Slip and Fall Injury?
3. What Kind of Compensation Can I Get After a Slip and Fall Accident?
4. How do I Prove Fault in My Slip and Fall Injury Case?
5. How Long do I Have to File My Case After a Slip and Fall Accident?
6. Contact Our Law Firm Today for Legal Advice About Your Slip and Fall Case

REVIEWED BY

C. William Kenny

January 01, 2024

Board certified by National Board of Trial Advocacy

A slip and fall can lead to debilitating injuries and unexpected medical bills, among other losses. If you slip and fall on the property of others, you could have a legal claim against them for the costs of your injuries.

Consulting a slip and fall injury lawyer from our law firm can help you determine your legal rights for your Clearfield slip and fall. Know your rights after your Pennsylvania accident.

How Can Berger and Green Help with My Slip and Fall Injury Case?

While you concentrate on your recovery from your injuries, we can build your case for compensation. Your personal injury attorney can:

• Deal with insurance companies
• Document your injuries and medical prognosis
• Investigate your accident
• Gather evidence to support fault
• File a lawsuit in your case

When you are laid up due to your injuries, we will come to you if needed. We can take care of all the paperwork so, you do not have to worry about it. Our goal is to remove some of the burdens from your shoulder while you heal from your injuries.

Start with a free case consultation at no risk or obligation to you. If we both decide to move forward with your slip and fall case, you pay nothing up front or out of pocket. You pay no legal fees until you receive a settlement or damages award in your case.

How do I Know If I Am Eligible for Compensation After a Slip and Fall Injury?

A wide variety of situations can lead to slip and fall accidents in Pennsylvania. These accidents may lead to injuries when visiting a store, office, hotel, restaurant, or private residence. Some of the most common causes of slip and fall accidents include:

• Ice and snow covering sidewalks and parking lots
• Rainwater and spilled liquids causing wet and slippery floors in stores
• Dim lighting, cracked and crumbling steps, and uneven flooring in public places
• Holes in carpets or rugs, broken handrails, and rotted flooring
• Merchandise and debris blocking store aisles

Property owners or managers that operate businesses generally open for public use must keep the property reasonably safe to protect others. This duty includes reasonably maintaining the property and inspecting and remedying any hazards. When their negligence creates a dangerous condition that leads to a slip and fall accident and someone is injured, they may face liability for their injuries.

What Kind of Compensation Can I Get After a Slip and Fall Accident?

In a slip and fall accident case, you can seek compensation for your injuries and other accident-related losses. Some losses are economic, in that they represent a specific financial loss, like a medical bill to treat your injury, or lost wages.

Other losses are non-economic, in that they have no specific dollar value. They still represent significant losses the accident has caused you, though. Economic losses may include:

• Medical bills and rehabilitation expenses
• Ongoing home health care and personal care costs
• Lost income and loss of future income
• Property damage
• Travel costs to receive medical treatment

Non-economic losses can include:

• Physical pain and suffering
• Emotional distress
• Embarrassment and humiliation
• Scarring and disfigurement
• Loss of the enjoyment of life

While damages can differ significantly from one case to another, these are examples of common damages in many slip and fall injury cases. The extent of the damages you could receive in a slip and fall case will also depend on your injuries’ seriousness and permanency.

How do I Prove Fault in My Slip and Fall Injury Case?

Proving your slip and fall case involves establishing fault. Your legal team must show the property owner knew, or reasonably should have known, about the hazard that led to your injuries. Equally important is whether the property owner took any steps to remedy the dangerous condition or warn others of the hazard.

As a result, questions that might be relevant in determining fault include:

• Did the property owner have actual knowledge of the hazard?
  • Did an employee or customer report the hazard?
  • Did the property owner mention the hazard to someone else?

• Should the property owner have known about the hazard?
  • How long was the hazard there before the slip and fall accident occurred?
  • How often is the property owner present on the property?

• Did the property owner take any steps to remedy the hazard?
  • Did the property owner call someone for repairs?
  • Did the property owner set up warning signs, put up caution tape, or otherwise attempt to warn people of the hazard?

A full investigation into the circumstances that led to your Pennsylvania slip and fall injury will involve answers to these and many other questions. A lawyer from our law firm can assist you in getting to the bottom of your Clearfield slip and fall case and getting the evidence necessary to prove fault.

How Long do I Have to File My Case After a Slip and Fall Accident?

For many reasons, you may not take action to get legal help immediately after your slip and fall accident. You may not seek legal help right away if:

• You fail to discover that you are injured until some time after the accident
• You do not realize until later that the slip and fall was what caused your injuries
• You are not sure if you have a legal case
• You initially do not think your injuries are very serious or costly
• You do not realize that the property owner might be liable for the costs of your injuries

Under Pa. C.S.A. § 5524, you generally have two years from the date of your accident to file your case in court. If you fail to file your case within this time frame, you could lose your right to compensation for your injuries. Getting legal advice at the outset can be essential to ensuring that you meet this filing deadline.

Your personal injury lawyer can help you determine whether you have a legal case. Our slip and fall team will pursue any damages to which you may be entitled.

Contact Our Law Firm Today for Legal Advice About Your Slip and Fall Case

When you slip, fall, and suffer injuries on property belonging to others, you might have a legal case against them. You may qualify to seek compensation for treatment of your injuries and other losses related to your accident.

The attorneys of Berger and Green have more than 40 years of experience helping injury victims fight back against negligent parties. Call our offices today at (412) 661-1400 and get a free case consultation.