Glendale Premises Liability Lawyer

Unsafe conditions like faulty wiring, poorly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents leading to serious injury. Businesses and property owners have an important 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 go to their places of business. The lawyers at Drake Law Firm, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of businesses or organizations that fail to offer these safe environments.

You can easily sustain injury through no fault of your own when you go to property such as a store, office building, motel or apartment complex. If the owner or occupant of the property knew of a hazardous condition or activity that caused your injury and neglected to take timely, practical steps to protect you from it, you might be eligible to recover full compensation for all damage you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Glendale premises liability attorney.

Premises Liability Cases

When you work with Drake Law Firm, we will thoroughly review the facts of your claim. We will identify and pursue all of your legal options against the owner or occupier of the property where your injury took place. Typically, the matters that we will concentrate on include:

• Duty-- Did you legally visit the property? For example, were you a customer at a store, a guest at a hotel or a social guest at someone's home? If so, the property owner or occupier owed a duty to exercise ordinary care to ensure that the property was safe for you. In other words, the owner or occupant needed to take practical measures to protect you from any hazardous 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 discover on your own.
• Breach-- Did the owner or occupant neglect to repair 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 negligence of the owner or occupier contribute to the injuries that you suffered, or did something else-- possibly your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual harm due to the failure of the property owner or occupier to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you must prove that you suffered real physical, psychological and/or financial harm.

It is always important to look at the ways a property owner or occupier 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 lawyers at Drake Law Firm, will be ready to tackle those issues and protect your right to full and fair compensation.

Types of Premises Liability Claims

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

• Slip and falls-- These incidents typically occur because of wet and slippery floors, bad lighting, damaged and uneven walkways, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. In addition, a lot of falls occur due to defects such as damaged stairs or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many individuals suffer injuries when improperly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when employees drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, particularly, expose tenants and their visitors to harm when they neglect to conduct routine inspections and remedy issues such as mold accumulation, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their carelessness violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These incidents often occur when building owners or tenants neglect to regularly inspect and maintain elevators and escalators in stores, shopping centers and office complexes.
• Negligent security-- Many assaults take place in shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, hotels and motels because property owners and managers fail to protect guests from known security risks, or they hire employees without a sufficient criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings might occur if a property owner or occupant fails to properly maintain a pool and features such as slides and diving boards. Swimming pool owners should also use a fence or locked gate to keep out children and protect against the foreseeable risk of an accident.

Compensation in a Premises Liability Claim

Our goal at Drake Law Firm, will be to secure maximum compensation for you in your premises liability claim. We understand how hazardous property conditions can cause people to sustain severe, 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 income (including lost future earning capacity)
• Pain and suffering
• Psychological 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 deny or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Glendale Premises Liability Lawyers Are Ready to Help You

At Drake Law Firm, we will move quickly to investigate your claim. We work with skilled investigators who can document the scene of your accident, talk with witnesses and locate other evidence such as surveillance camera footage. We also routinely consult with experts who help us to figure out how a hazardous property condition caused an accident. A big part of our investigation might involve locating the identity of the property owner or person who 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 a Premises Liability Lawyer in Glendale, 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!