Mendez and Sanchez - Premises Liability Lawyer in Pasadena, California

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Unsafe conditions like faulty wiring, poorly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents leading to major injury. Businesses and property owners have an important responsibility to create safe environments for their customers and visitors. This also includes walkways and parking lots, in addition to the people they employ. Workers are there to serve and at times, even protect people who go to their places of business. The attorneys at Mendez & Sanchez, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of companies or organizations that fail to offer 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 occupier of the property knew of a dangerous condition or activity that resulted in your injury and failed to take timely, practical 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 Pasadena premises liability lawyer.

Premises Liability Claims in California

When you work with Mendez & Sanchez, we will thoroughly examine the facts of your case. We will determine and pursue all of your legal options against the owner or occupier of the property where your injury occurred. Typically, the issues that we will concentrate on include:

• Duty-- Did you legally visit the property? For instance, were you a customer at a store, a guest at a hotel or a social guest at a person's residence? If so, the property owner or occupant 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 measures to protect you from any hazardous 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 occupant neglect to fix the hazardous 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 carelessness of the owner or occupant contribute to the injuries that you sustained, or did something else-- perhaps your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual injury as a result of the failure of the property owner or occupant 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 look at the ways a property owner or occupier will try to avoid liability. For instance, the owner or occupier may claim that you were a trespasser or argue that you sustained injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The attorneys at Mendez & Sanchez, will be prepared 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 circumstances. Some of the most common premises liability claims that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These accidents usually happen due to wet and slippery floors, poor lighting, broken and uneven sidewalks, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. Additionally, a lot of falls occur due to defects such as damaged stairs or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many people suffer injuries when improperly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when employees drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, particularly, subject tenants and their visitors to harm when they fail to perform regular inspections and remedy concerns such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their negligence 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 take place 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 workers without an adequate criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings can occur if a property owner or occupier neglects to properly maintain a pool and features such as slides and diving boards. Swimming 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 Mendez & Sanchez, will be to acquire maximum compensation for you in your premises liability case. We know how dangerous property conditions can cause individuals to sustain severe, 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 expenses
• 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 identify 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 Pasadena Premises Liability Lawyers Are Prepared to Help You

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

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