Injury Types on Property: Know Your Rights

The next list of 5 injuries often happen on property:

We at The Stone Law Office are personal injury attorneys seasoned in claims involving people injured on property. Next are 5 different claim types involving injuries that happen on property.

Slip and fall

Often happening on property belonging to others are injuries arising from slip and falls. After a slip and fall injury, it is critical to promptly involve a highly rated slip and fall lawyer. Notice to the property owner is the crucial element to firm up the claim. The condition that caused the slip/fall must generally be reported as a precondition of recovery for the claim.

All states generally require proof that the property owner knew about the injury causing condition for liability to attach. Also, property owners must adequately warn about dangerous conditions on property. Failure to adequately warn about a dangerous condition overcomes warning based defenses.

We recently filed a lawsuit in a case. It involves a stair tread defect. This defect caused our client to fall down 9 stairs. You too should contact us with your slip and fall claim.

Falling objects

Another potential injury causing condition on property are falling objects.

Sometimes, falling objects penetrate scaffolding meant to protect pedestrians. Scaffolding deficiencies respond to a defense that scaffolding was in place.

Falling object scenarios include those happening on construction sites, hotel guest balcony incidents and suicides. Applicable liability standards are akin to what applies in slip and fall cases involving notice.

Third parties injuries

Third parties sometimes cause injuries to others on property. The property owner often claims ignorance of the risk of that any injury would happen. The applicable standard is akin to that for slip and falls. Specifically, notice is the key.

Third party injuries on property are relatively frequent. The claims are sometimes made complex by the nature of the adverse party’s involvement.

The involved property owners promptly seek to distance themselves from injuries on their property. It is important to secure competent counsel to investigate the facts. Call us if you have a case involving third party injuries.

Employee or contractor injures

While many claims involving employees injured on property fall within worker’s compensation schemes, some do not. We handle workplace injury claims. As workplace injury lawyers, we have a history of success in deciphering when a claim falls in or outside work comp. In some cases, a worker’s compensation scheme probably does not apply. For example, work comp is likely inapplicable to temp agency workers.

Company’s facing exposure to employees and contractors injured on their property fiercely defend even the most obvious claims of neglect. The Stone Law Office attorneys will rise to the occasion.

Animal attacks

We wrote about the recklessness that leads to dog attacks. Of course, dog attacks present only one example of injuries inflicted by an animals. But they happen often.

Consider, centers for Disease Control statistics show dog attacks are rising.

Akin to other property related injury claims, notice is key in dog attack and other animal attack claims. Texas adopted the “one bite rule”. Applying the law, by example, allows a dog owner to claim it was not aware of dangerous propensities as a defense.

The Stone Law Office has a record of success in handling dog bite claims. Your search for highly rated dog bite lawyers will lead you to us.