Slip and fall and other premises liability cases can present real challenges for someone who is hurt. How long a hazard was present, whether reasonable inspections would have caught it, and questions about why the injured person did not see the danger can all affect a claim. Understanding these issues can help an injured person know what to expect.
One of the reasons probably is the danger has to be around for a little while. Let’s say there’s a puddle of clear grease at a grocery store and you step in it and fall. If that grease has only been there for a few seconds, how is the store supposed to know and fix that issue? It’s going to be really tough to say reasonable efforts on their part would have prevented this fall.
Now, let’s say it’s milk or something and it’s room temperature. Now, you’ve got some arguments. Maybe that milk’s been there for an hour or longer. It’s also easy for them to see if they’re doing reasonable inspections of the store looking for dangers, looking for possible problems. They’ll see that milk. They’ll clean it up. You won’t fall.
So, there are different issues in these premises cases that make it maybe a little bit more difficult for somebody who’s hurt, because sometimes a jury or somebody else is going to go, “Well, why didn’t you see it? If you expected them to see it and clean it up, why didn’t you see it and avoid it?”
But there’s lots of science out there that’ll tell you the customers are going in looking for what they need, whether it’s a shirt, whether it’s detergent, whatever it is. They’re not going in watching out for every known danger. That’s not why they went to the store. So, there are lots of psychological elements involved in this.
Chad Jones Law has handled several of these cases over the years. You’re going to have to have experts involved. They can talk about these issues and talk about the responsibilities of all the parties.
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