Slip and Fall Law
Slip and Fall
As simple as they may seem, slip and falls are very dangerous.
This area of personal injury witnesses thousands of injuries every year
in the United States. An almost invisible crack or a small amount of soapy
water can leave a victim in a wheelchair or with a permanent spinal cord
injury. But there are many layers to premises liability, which is the
area of law that encompassed slip and fall injuries. It can become very
complicated when trying to determine fault, and to determine whether conditions
were indeed hazardous.
Slip and fall accidents are personal injury and are one type of "fall down" accidents. There are four general types of slip and fall accidents:
Trip-and-fall accidents, where there is a foreign object in the walking
path.
Stump-and-fall accidents, where there is an impediment
in the walking surface.
Step-and-fall accidents, where there is an unexpected failure
or hole in the walking surface.
Slip-and-fall accidents, in which the interface of the
shoe and the floor fails.
Both the property owner as well as the injured person can be held to varying degrees of responsibility for an injury. The property owner has a responsibility to keep property safe. Each person has a duty to watch where they are going, as well as realize that there are things that fall or spill onto walking surfaces.