Premise Liability in Santa Ana, CA

Santa Ana Premises Liability Attorney

Hazardous conditions like faulty wiring, improperly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents resulting in 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. Workers are there to serve and sometimes, even protect people that go to their places of business. The attorneys at the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of companies or organizations that fail to provide these safe environments.

You can easily suffer 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 occupier of the property knew of a hazardous condition or activity that led to your injury and failed to take timely, practical actions 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 Santa Ana premises liability attorney.

Premises Liability Claims in California

When you work with the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, we will thoroughly assess 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 occurred. Generally, the issues that we will concentrate on include:

• Duty-- Did you legally visit the property? For instance, 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 occupant 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 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 find on your own.
• Breach-- Did the owner or occupant neglect to repair the dangerous condition in a reasonable, timely way or, at 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 occupant contribute to the injuries that you suffered, or did something else-- perhaps your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual injury because of the failure of the property owner or occupier to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you need to show that you suffered real physical, emotional and/or financial harm.

It is always important to consider the ways a property owner or occupant will try to avoid liability. For example, the owner or occupant might claim that you were a trespasser or argue that you suffered injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The attorneys at the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, will be prepared to tackle 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 circumstances. A few of the most common premises liability claims that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These accidents often occur due to wet and slippery floors, bad lighting, broken and uneven sidewalks, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy sidewalks and parking lots. Additionally, many falls occur because of defects such as damaged stairs or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many individuals sustain injuries when poorly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when workers drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, particularly, expose occupants and their visitors to harm when they fail to conduct routine inspections and remedy concerns such as mold accumulation, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their carelessness violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These accidents typically happen when building owners or tenants neglect 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 risks, or they hire workers without an adequate criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings might 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 prevent the foreseeable risk of an accident.

Compensation in a California Premises Liability Claim

Our goal at the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, will be to acquire maximum compensation for you in your premises liability case. We know how hazardous property conditions can cause individuals to sustain serious, 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
• Emotional distress
• Wrongful death damages (if you lost your loved one)
• Punitive damages

We will identify all sources of compensation for you and aggressively challenge any attempts by the property owner or occupant (or its insurance provider) to blame you for your injuries and deny or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Santa Ana Premises Liability Attorneys Are Prepared to Help You

At the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, 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 exactly how a dangerous 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 injured.

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