Virginia Personal Injury Law: The Slip and Fall

The purposes of a personal injury lawyer is to help someone who has been wrongfully injured to recover money from the person or business that caused that injury. There are many different types of injuries. This post contains basic information about the “slip and fall.” So what is the slip and fall, and how can a personal injury lawyer help you if this happened to you?

What is a Slip and Fall Case?

The most common type of slip and fall is a case where someone was in a grocery store or some other retail store. While walking through the store, that person might slip on a wet or slippery surface. Maybe a water heater was broken and dripping water on the floor. Maybe an employee came through and forgot to mop up a spill from another guest.

There are many other scenarios where these kinds of cases come up, but the essence of a slip and fall is that you are on someone else’s property, you slip, you fall, and you are injured.

What Do You Have to Prove to Have a Good Slip and Fall Case?

In order to be successful in a slip and fall case, there are a number of obligations Virginia law places on the injured person. The injured person has to prove that:

1) A dangerous condition existed at the property;

2) The owner of the property (or agent) either had direct knowledge of the condition or the condition was so obvious they should have known;

3) The owner of the property (or agent) failed to fix the condition;

4) The injured person slipped and fell because of that conditiion;

5) The injured person sufferred an injury as a result of the slip and fall.

Why You Need a Personal Injury Lawyer.

Virginia law makes it complicated and very difficult to get money from a business as a result of a slip and fall. These businesses keep an army of lawyers on stand by to fight these claims and to minimize the amount they have to pay. Because of all these pitfalls, it is important to have a personal injury lawyer help you as soon as you are the victim of a slip and fall.

The personal injury lawyer can walk you through what actions to take to maximize your chances of recovering money from the business by getting the documentation related to the incident, helping walk you through talking to a medical professional for further diagnosis, and negotiating with insurance providers.

Make sure you talk to a personal injury lawyer ASAP if this happens to you.