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Premise Liability Accidents

Common Slip and Fall Accidents in Georgia

Slip and fall accidents occur in a much broader context than simply slipping on a wet floor. Some of the most common accidents an Atlanta slip and fall lawyer at our firm can help with include:

• Falls due to poor lighting
• Tripping and falling due to broken flooring, torn or wrinkled carpeting
• Tripping and falling due to broken pavement
• Falls due to broken stairs or loose handrails
• Injuries caused by broken escalators or elevators

Slip and fall accidents can happen almost anywhere. An experienced Atlanta slip and fall lawyer can tell you whether you may be entitled to compensation from the property owner.

Other Types of Premises Liability Accidents

As noted above, slip and fall accidents are a specific type of premises liability case. You may be entitled to compensation from the property owner even if your injury was not the result of a fall. For example, the following situations can also give rise to a premises liability claim:

• Injuries due to inadequate security. These cases commonly arise in sports and entertainment venues where owners have an obligation to actively police for drunkenness, fighting, gang activity, and other activities that would result in an unsafe situation.
• Failure to comply with safety ordinances. Local, state, and federal ordinances are intended to keep people safe. When someone is injured on another person’s property, the property owner’s failure to comply with safety ordinances is compelling evidence of their negligence.

Negligence Explained by an Atlanta Slip and Fall Lawyer

Proving negligence is often the crux of a slip and fall case. Generally speaking, a property owner is negligent whenever they fail to take action that a reasonably prudent person would take under the same or similar circumstances. It’s not easy to define what a “reasonably prudent person” would do. An experienced Atlanta slip and fall lawyer can usually identify early on whether the property owner in your case was negligent. 

Many slip and fall cases revolve around dangerous conditions that the property owner claims they were unaware existed. In these cases, the question then becomes whether the property owner should have known about the issue. These cases often involve the following questions:

• Does the owner regularly inspect the property for dangerous conditions?
• Does the property owner employ someone to manage the property, and are they in regular communication?
• Does the property owner promptly respond to reports of dangerous conditions? Do they require their employees to promptly report dangerous conditions?

Other cases may involve conditions beyond the owner’s control. Weather-related hazards such as ice and snow are a common example. The owner may not be able to immediately clear the sidewalks, but they may have a duty to warn of icy conditions. On the other hand, the owner may have been negligent if the storm has ended and the icy conditions have been unaddressed for hours.