Mendez & Sanchez - Premises Liability Lawyer in San Gabriel, California

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Unsafe conditions like faulty wiring, improperly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents resulting in 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 individuals 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 businesses or organizations that fail to offer these safe environments.

You can easily sustain injury through no fault of your own when you visit 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 led to your injury and failed to take timely, reasonable steps to protect you from it, you might be eligible to recover full compensation for all damage you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced San Gabriel premises liability lawyer.

Premises Liability Claims in California

When you consult with Mendez & Sanchez, we will carefully review 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 matters that we will concentrate on include:

• Duty-- Did you lawfully visit the property? For instance, were you a customer at a store, a visitor at a hotel or a social guest at a person's home? If so, the property owner or occupant 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 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 occupier neglect to repair the hazardous condition in a reasonable, timely way or, at least, to alert 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 occupier 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 occupant to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you have to prove that you suffered genuine physical, emotional and/or financial harm.

It is always important to look at the ways a property owner or occupant will try to avoid liability. For instance, the owner or occupier may claim that you were a trespasser or argue that you suffered injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The attorneys at Mendez & Sanchez, 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 arise in many different situations. A few of the most common premises liability cases that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These accidents often occur because of wet and slippery floors, bad lighting, damaged and uneven walkways, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. Additionally, a lot of falls occur because of defects such as broken stairways or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many individuals suffer injuries when poorly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when workers drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, in particular, subject occupants and their visitors to harm when they neglect to conduct regular inspections and remedy concerns such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their neglect violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These incidents often happen when building owners or tenants fail to regularly inspect and maintain elevators and escalators in stores, shopping centers and office buildings.
• 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 hazards, or they hire workers without an adequate criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings might occur if a property owner or occupant neglects to properly maintain a swimming 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 Lawsuit

Our goal at Mendez & Sanchez, will be to acquire maximum compensation for you in your premises liability claim. We understand 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 income (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 occupant (or its insurance provider) to blame you for your injuries and deny or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our San Gabriel Premises Liability Lawyers are Ready to Help You

At Mendez & Sanchez, we will move quickly to investigate your claim. 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 exactly how a hazardous property condition caused an accident. A major part of our investigation can involve locating the identity of the property owner or individual who was otherwise in control of the premises where you or a loved one was injured.

OUR PERSONAL INJURY AND PREMISE LIABILITY ATTORNEYS IN SAN GABRIEL ARE AVAILABLE 24 HOURS A DAY TO TAKE YOUR CALL. FOR A FREE CONSULTATION, CALL US OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE.