Premises Liability in Fresno, CA

Fresno Premises Liability Attorney

Hazardous conditions like faulty wiring, poorly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents resulting in major 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, in addition to the people they employ. Employees are there to serve and sometimes, even protect people who go to their places of business. The attorneys at Tim D. Wright, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of companies or organizations that fail to offer these safe conditions.

You can easily sustain 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 resulted in your injury and failed to take timely, practical actions to protect you from it, you may be qualified to recover full compensation for all damage you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Fresno premises liability lawyer.

Premises Liability Cases

When you consult with Tim D. Wright, we will carefully review 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. Typically, the issues that we will focus on include:

• Duty-- Did you legally visit the property? For example, were you a customer at a store, a visitor at a hotel or a social guest at someone's residence? If so, the property owner or occupier owed a duty to exercise ordinary care to make sure that the property was safe for you. In other words, the owner or occupant needed to take reasonable steps 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 occupier fail to fix the hazardous condition in a reasonable, timely way or, at the very 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 occupier contribute to the injuries that you suffered, or did something else-- possibly your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual injury because 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 real physical, emotional and/or financial harm.

It is always important to look at the ways a property owner or occupier will attempt to avoid liability. For example, the owner or occupant might claim that you were a trespasser or suggest that you sustained injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The lawyers at Tim D. Wright, will be ready to address those issues and protect your right to full and fair compensation.

Types of Premises Liability Claims

A premises liability claim can emerge in various circumstances. A few of the most common premises liability cases that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These incidents usually happen because of wet and slippery floors, bad lighting, broken and uneven sidewalks, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. Additionally, a lot of falls occur because of defects such as damaged stairways 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, in particular, subject occupants and their guests to harm when they neglect to perform regular inspections and remedy concerns such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Usually, their negligence violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These accidents usually 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 visitors from known security risks, or they hire workers without a sufficient criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings might occur if a property owner or occupier 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 Premises Liability Lawsuit

Our goal at Tim D. Wright, will be to acquire maximum compensation for you in your premises liability claim. We know how dangerous property conditions can cause people to sustain serious, life-altering 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
• 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 provider) to blame you for your injuries and deny or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Fresno Premises Liability Attorneys Are Ready to Help You

At Tim D. Wright, we will move quickly to investigate your claim. We work with experienced investigators who can document the scene of your accident, talk with witnesses and track down other evidence such as surveillance camera footage. We also routinely consult with experts who help us to determine 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 injured.

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