Mendez and Sanchez - Premises Liability Lawyer in Monterey Park, California

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Hazardous conditions like faulty wiring, improperly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents leading to 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 hire. Workers are there to serve and sometimes, even protect individuals that go to their places of business. The attorneys at Mendez & Sanchez, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of businesses or organizations that fail to provide these safe conditions.

You can readily 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 occupant 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 harm you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Monterey Park premises liability lawyer.

Premises Liability Claims in California

When you work with Mendez & Sanchez, we will thoroughly examine the facts of your claim. We will identify and pursue all of your legal options against the owner or occupier of the property where your injury took place. 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 home? If so, the property owner or occupier owed a duty to exercise ordinary care to ensure 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 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 neglect to fix the hazardous condition in a reasonable, timely way or, at 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 occupant contribute to the injuries that you suffered, or did something else-- possibly your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual injury as a result of the failure of the property owner or occupier to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you must prove that you suffered real physical, psychological and/or financial harm.

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

Types of Premises Liability Claims in California

A premises liability claim can arise in many different situations. Some of the most common premises liability cases that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These incidents usually occur due to wet and slippery floors, poor lighting, damaged and uneven sidewalks, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. In addition, a lot of falls occur due to defects such as damaged stairways or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many individuals sustain injuries when improperly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when employees drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, particularly, subject occupants and their visitors to harm when they neglect to perform regular inspections and remedy issues such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Usually, their oversight violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These accidents typically occur when building owners or tenants fail to regularly inspect and maintain elevators and escalators in stores, shopping centers and office complexes.
• Negligent security-- Numerous assaults occur in shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, hotels and motels because property owners and managers fail to protect guests from known security hazards, or they hire employees without a sufficient criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings may occur if a property owner or occupier neglects to adequately maintain a pool and features such as slides and diving boards. Pool owners should also use a fence or locked gate to keep out children and protect against the foreseeable risk of an accident.

Compensation in a California Premises Liability Case

Our goal at Mendez & Sanchez, will be to secure maximum compensation for you in your premises liability claim. We know how hazardous property conditions can cause individuals to suffer severe, 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 costs
• 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 identify all sources of compensation for you and aggressively challenge any attempts by the property owner or occupant (or its insurance company) to blame you for your injuries and reject or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Monterey Park Premises Liability Lawyers Are Ready to Help You

At Mendez & Sanchez, we will move quickly to investigate your claim. We work with experienced investigators that can document the scene of your accident, talk with witnesses and track down other evidence such as surveillance camera footage. We also frequently consult with experts who help us to determine how a hazardous property condition caused an accident. A big part of our investigation might involve locating the identity of the property owner or person who was otherwise in control of the premises where you or a loved one was hurt.

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