Panorama City Premises Liability Lawyer

Hazardous conditions like faulty wiring, poorly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents leading to serious 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, along with the people they employ. Employees are there to serve and at times, even protect people that visit their places of business. The lawyers at Drake Law Firm, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of companies or organizations that fail to provide these safe environments.

You can easily sustain 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 hazardous condition or activity that led to your injury and neglected to take timely, practical steps to protect you from it, you may be qualified to recover full compensation for all harm you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Panorama City premises liability attorney.

Premises Liability Claims in California

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

• Duty-- Did you lawfully visit the property? For example, were you a customer at a store, a guest 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 ensure that the property was safe for you. In other words, the owner or occupant needed to take reasonable measures to protect you from any dangerous condition on the property that the owner or occupier 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 neglect to fix the hazardous condition in a reasonable, timely way or, at the very least, to alert 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-- perhaps your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual injury as a result of 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, psychological and/or financial harm.

It is always important to look at the ways a property owner or occupant will try to avoid liability. For example, the owner or occupier may 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 situations. A few of the most common premises liability cases that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These incidents usually occur because of wet and slippery floors, bad lighting, broken and uneven walkways, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. In addition, many falls occur because of defects such as broken stairs or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many people suffer injuries when improperly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when workers drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, particularly, subject occupants and their guests to harm when they fail to perform routine inspections and remedy concerns such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Usually, their neglect violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These accidents often occur 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 take place in shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, hotels and motels because property owners and managers fail to protect guests from known security hazards, or they hire employees without a sufficient criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings can occur if a property owner or occupant fails to adequately maintain a swimming 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 California Premises Liability Case

Our goal at Drake Law Firm, will be to acquire maximum compensation for you in your premises liability case. We understand how hazardous property conditions can cause individuals 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 costs
• 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 Panorama City Premises Liability Attorneys Are Ready to Help You

At Drake Law Firm, we will move quickly to investigate your claim. We work with skilled investigators that 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 that help us to figure out exactly how a dangerous property condition caused an accident. A big part of our investigation can involve tracking down 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 Panorama City, 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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