Your Pineyro & Cressman slip and fall attorney is here to handle your premises liability case. Premises liability cases involve accidents that occur due to negligent maintenance, or unsafe and dangerous conditions upon property owned by someone other than the accident victim. A slip and fall attorney knows that property owners and business establishments have a duty to provide a safe environment for individuals on their premises.
Common situations giving rise to premises accidents include uneven floor surfaces, poorly marked changes in elevation, slippery surfaces, broken sidewalks, uneven elevators and broken steps.
An emerging area of litigation for your slip fall attorney includes claims against hotels, shopping centers, and other businesses that have a known problem with crime on their premises, yet have failed to protect their customers. Many of these cases involve victims who have been severely injured, raped or even killed as a result of the business establishment failing to protect its customers from known dangers. A Pineyro & Cressman slip fall attorney has represented persons injured in department stores, restaurants, grocery stores, banks, hospitals and other buildings open to the public.
For premises liability to apply:
1) The defendant must possess the land or “premises”.[1]
2) The plaintiff must be an invitee or, in certain cases, a licensee.[1][2] Traditionally, trespassers were not protected under premises liability law.[1][2] However, in 1968, the California Supreme Court issued a vastly influential opinion, entitled Rowland v. Christian (1968) 69 Cal.2d 108, which abolished the significance of legal distinctions such as invitee, licensee, or trespasser in determining whether one could hold the possessor of a premises liable for harm. This opinion led to changes in the law in many other states in the United States, and is viewed as a seminal opinion in the development of the law of premises liability.
3) There must be negligence or some other wrongful act.[2] In recent years, the law of premises liability has evolved to include cases where a person is injured on the premises of another by a third person’s wrongful act, such as an assault. These cases are sometimes referred to as “third party premises liability” cases and they represent a highly complex and dynamic area of tort law. They pose especially complex legal issues of duty and causation because the injured party is seeking to hold a possessor or owner of property directly or vicariously liable when the immediate injury-producing act was, arguably, not caused by the possessor or owner. [wikipedia]
A Pineyro & Cressman slip fall attorney can also handle the following; truck accidents, some catastrophic injuries, mass transit accidents, airplane accidents, drowning accidents, bicycle accidents, motorcycle accidents, boating accidents, theme park accidents, defective drugs, birth defects, construction accidents, insurance non-payments, pilots charged with FAA violations.
Contact an experienced Pineyro & Cressman slip fall attorney as soon as possible so we can work on getting you the justice you deserve! Please call us now at 1-877-566-1020. We are ready to hear from you any time. To see a listing of some of our positive results, please review our Verdicts and Settlements page.
