Premise Liability in Riverside, CA

Riverside Premises Liability Lawyer

Unsafe 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 individuals they employ. Workers are there to serve and sometimes, even protect individuals who visit their places of business. The attorneys at the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of businesses or organizations that fail to offer these safe conditions.

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 occupant of the property knew of a hazardous condition or activity that caused your injury and neglected to take timely, reasonable steps to protect you from it, you may be eligible to recover full compensation for all damage you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Riverside premises liability attorney.

Premises Liability Claims in California

When you work with the Law Offices of 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 took place. Generally, the matters that we will focus on include:

• Duty-- Did you legally visit the property? For instance, were you a customer at a store, a visitor at a hotel or a social guest at someone's home? 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 practical steps to protect you from any dangerous condition on the property that the owner or occupier knew or reasonably should have known about and which you would not have been expected to discover on your own.
• Breach-- Did the owner or occupier fail to repair the dangerous 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 sustained, or did something else-- perhaps your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual harm due to the failure of the property owner or occupant to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you must show that you suffered genuine physical, psychological and/or financial harm.

It is always important to consider the ways a property owner or occupant will attempt to avoid liability. For example, the owner or occupier may claim that you were a trespasser or suggest that you sustained injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The attorneys at the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, will be ready to take on 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 many different situations. Some of the most common premises liability cases that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These accidents usually occur because of wet and slippery floors, poor lighting, damaged and uneven sidewalks, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy sidewalks and parking lots. In addition, a lot of falls occur due to 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, in particular, expose occupants and their guests to harm when they neglect to perform regular inspections and remedy issues such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their neglect violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These accidents usually 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 occur 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 employees without an adequate criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings may occur if a property owner or occupant fails to properly maintain a swimming pool and features such as slides and diving boards. 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 Case

Our goal at the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, will be to acquire maximum compensation for you in your premises liability claim. We understand 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 costs
• Lost wages (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 occupier (or its insurance provider) to blame you for your injuries and deny or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Riverside Premises Liability Lawyers Are Prepared to Help You

At the Law Offices of Tim D. Wright, we will move quickly to investigate your case. 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 regularly consult with experts who help us to determine how a dangerous property condition caused an accident. A big part of our investigation may involve tracking down the identity of the property owner or person that was otherwise in control of the premises where you or a loved one was injured.