How do you recover from a slip and fall? Beverly Hills lawyers can help you sue landowners who don’t take care of their properties. We can trace the source of your accident to a landowner’s negligence and, under California’s personal injury statutes, help you get the support you need to pay your accident-related bills.
Our personal injury lawyers in Beverly Hills have helped clients secure millions in accident-related damages. If you’re struggling to overcome financial burdens from a recent slip and fall accident, Omega Law Group Accident & Injury Attorneys can help you get back on your feet. We’ve helped Californians recover millions since the firm’s founding in 2016.
You can book a free case evaluation with our staff today.
What Should You Do After a Slip and Fall Accident?
If you recently slipped and fell while on someone else’s property, you have the right to hold negligent parties responsible for your recovery. You can make your long-term recovery simpler by:
- Taking your injuries seriously and seeking out medical attention as soon as possible
- Contacting experienced personal injury attorneys and discussing your legal options
- Gather evidence proving that negligence contributed to your injuries
- Collect bills, invoices, and receipts related to your case so you can argue for a settlement based on the totality of your economic and non-economic losses
- Speaking with insurance company representatives with an attorney present to discuss your right to financial compensation
- Discuss the pros and cons of pursuing a personal injury claim with our experienced legal team
Can a Beverly Hills Slip and Fall Lawyer Help You File an Insurance Claim After a Fall?
A Beverly Hills slip and fall attorney can help you file a claim for financial compensation with an insurance company after several types of accidents, including a slip and fall. However, your right to recover will hinge on the insurance policy that a landowner invested in.
Our experienced attorneys can break down the coverage available to you and help you file a claim for damages that an applicable plan covers. In doing so, we can fight for your right to accident compensation based on the severity of your economic losses.
However, insurance adjusters will fight you every step of the way. Some may try to ask for statements about your fall while you’re still frazzled. Others may slow down the claim filing process in hopes that you’ll give up the fight. If you find yourself dealing with these bad-faith approaches to your recovery, you can lean on our personal injury law firm for support.
Who’s Responsible for a Slip and Fall Accident?
Property owners have a legal obligation to ensure that their land is free from hazardous conditions. Each landowner should equip their property with the necessary security features, including strong lighting and cameras, to prevent visitors from feeling unsafe. Likewise, property owners should take steps to address dangerous conditions before invitees or licensees can come into contact with them.
Landowners who fail to manage their land can violate the duty of care that they owe to the people invited onto their property.
That said, other parties can take the blame for a slip and fall accident. Construction companies, other pedestrians, and independent contractors can all play a part in your fall. Your right to hold any of these parties liable for your losses depends on what evidence of fault you can bring forward.
What Negligence Can Cause a Slip and Fall Accident?
There’s not a single instance of negligence that tends to cause today’s slip and fall accidents. Instead, individual acts of negligence can each lead to their own severe fall.
For example, a spill that isn’t marked by a sign can lead someone to fall and suffer a traumatic brain injury. A damaged sidewalk may cause someone to trip and cause a soft tissue injury or spinal cord injury. Unfortunately, some types of negligence can even prove fatal, especially if the person who falls is older or has previously suffered from severe injuries.
If you want to argue that negligence contributed to your recent slip and fall, you need to bring forward evidence to make your case. Fortunately, meeting California’s burden of proof is easier when you have an experienced team of legal professionals on your side. We can determine what evidence may allow you to pursue a lawsuit after a free case evaluation.
How to Hold Someone Responsible for a Slip and Fall Accident
Ensuring that your personal injury claim meets California’s burden of proof requires our team to break down the data most relevant to your accident. Our efforts may see us return to the scene of your accident to gather physical debris related to your fall, including sidewalk chippings or samples from a broken railing.
We integrate data found at the scene of our clients’ accidents with video footage, photos, witness statements, and expert witness testimonies. We can even collaborate with medical professionals to detail the extent of your severe injuries. We then compile our findings into a finalized premises liability claim highlighting the following:
- How your accident took place
- What negligence a property owner engaged in
- How a landowner could have avoided that negligence
- What losses you sustained under a landowner’s care
- What right you have to compensation
- What the value of your desired settlement should be
You can rest easy knowing that we don’t expect you to directly participate in our investigation with us. You can stay home and recover from your injuries while our Beverly Hills, CA, slip and fall lawyers go to work.
How Much Compensation to Request After a Slip and Fall Accident
While there’s no such thing as an “average” slip and fall accident settlement, there are standard losses that you may have the right to include in your request for support. These may include the cost of your medical expenses and compensation for time you had to take off of work.
So long as you have evidence tying certain expenses to your slip and fall accident, you may also have the right to request economic and non-economic damages like the following:
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Mental anguish
- Property damage
- Emergency medical fees
- Surgeries and long-term care
- Pain management
Our slip and fall attorneys in Beverly Hills can help you determine which expenses to include in your claim. We’ll make every effort to help you secure maximum compensation for the losses you sustained.
The Pros and Cons of Going to Trial
You have the right to negotiate for the financial support that you feel you deserve after a slip and fall accident. However, you can only negotiate for that support if a liable party recognizes that they played a role in your accident. Liable parties that refuse to take responsibility for a slip and fall accident may force you to go to court to get the settlement you deserve.
There are benefits to going to a civil trial, though. For example, you can count on a judge and related legal parties to ensure that a liable party faces consequences for untoward or inappropriate behavior. A liable party that refuses to make it to trial can waive their right to argue in their defense.
However, trials can take more time to resolve than slip and fall settlement negotiations. Not sure how to move forward? Don’t worry. You can discuss whether you want to open negotiations or go straight to a slip and fall accident trial when you move to file your completed civil claim.
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What is Comparative Negligence?
California’s comparative negligence policies control who can recover after a serious fall, and they also limit the compensation a victim has the right to take home with them upon winning a case. Fortunately, California’s comparative negligence laws are generous.
California accident victims retain the right to receive damages after all accidents, including motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, truck accidents, and falls, even if they’re 99% responsible for those accidents. However, the compensation you receive from a case will change depending on the percentage of fault you contributed to your accident.
How Does Comparative Negligence Impact Your Slip and Fall Case?
Say you slip and fall while in the grocery store, and you decide to sue the grocer for damages. As the injured party, you have an obligation to meet California’s burden of proof and present evidence to argue for your right to support. However, say that the grocer presents evidence indicating that you were dancing in an aisle and argues that you caused some of your accident.
You have the right to challenge the defense’s counter-accusations, and you should. If you don’t, you risk taking home a reduced settlement. To continue with this example, a court may find that while, yes, a grocer should have put down a “wet floor” sign, you shouldn’t have been dancing in the grocery store. You may subsequently be responsible for 10% of your accident.
If you stand to receive $10,000 in damages for your losses, you may instead only receive $9,000 to account for the 10% of fault you contributed to your fall.
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When to File a Slip and Fall Accident Claim
Cal. Civ. Code § 335.1 gives you two years to gather all of the evidence needed to hold another party financially accountable for a slip and fall accident. You must bring your claim forward within that two-year period if you want to receive loss-based damages.
Unfortunately, California’s personal injury statute of limitations is firm. If you miss your two-year filing deadline, you may struggle to get the financial support you need to pay for your medical bills and other expenses.
If you suspect you may have let your case’s statute of limitations expire, don’t panic. You can work with our personal injury attorneys to explore what exceptions, if any, may allow you to extend your deadline. For example, if you were under 18 at the time of your fall, you may have longer than you thought to bring your claim forward.
When to Contact an Experienced Beverly Hills Slip and Fall Accident Lawyer
The sooner you contact a Beverly Hills, CA, slip and fall attorney to discuss your accident, the faster you can recover. We encourage you to contact an attorney before insurance claims adjusters get involved in your case. However, you have until your statute of limitations expires to reach out and initiate an investigation.
Omega Law Group Accident & Injury Attorneys offers case consultations free of charge and obligation immediately following serious slip and fall accidents. You do not have to commit to working with our team to book an appointment and learn more about your legal rights.
Your first case consultation is an opportunity to discuss the severity of your losses, the legal process, and what maximum compensation you may walk with after pursuing a case. It’s entirely up to you to decide whether or not you want to move your slip and fall case forward.
Let Omega Law Group Accident & Injury Attorneys Represent Your Best Interests
Are you ready to financially recover from a slip and fall? Beverly Hills attorneys are here to help. You can meet with our team free of charge to discuss the negligence that led to your most recent accident. Our legal team can then head out to the sight of your accident to bring back evidence of a landowner’s misconduct.
Our team works on a contingency fee basis, ensuring that accident victims in Southern California have the right to pursue legal action against a property owner who’s refused to address the unsafe conditions on their land. In other words, you don’t have to let your finances prevent you from pursuing your personal injury lawsuit.
Omega Law Group Accident & Injury Attorneys puts decades of combined legal experience to work for you. You can trust our client-facing services to prioritize your financial well-being as we fight for the justice you deserve.
