Premise Liability in Dallas, TX

Dallas Premises Liability Attorney

Unsafe conditions like faulty wiring, improperly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents leading to serious 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 the people they employ. Workers are there to serve and sometimes, even protect individuals that go to their places of business. The lawyers at Dunk Law Firm, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of companies or organizations that fail to provide these safe environments.

You can readily suffer 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 occupier of the property knew of a dangerous condition or activity that resulted in your injury and neglected to take timely, reasonable actions to protect you from it, you may be eligible to recover full compensation for all harm you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Dallas premises liability attorney.

Premises Liability Claims in Texas

When you work with Dunk Law Firm, we will thoroughly assess the facts of your claim. We will determine and pursue all of your legal options against the owner or occupant of the property where your injury occurred. Generally, the issues that we will concentrate on include:

• Duty-- Did you lawfully visit the property? For example, 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 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 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 find on your own.
• Breach-- Did the owner or occupier neglect to fix the hazardous condition in a reasonable, timely manner 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 suffered, or did something else-- perhaps your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual harm because of the failure of the property owner or occupier to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you must show that you suffered real 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 occupant might claim that you were a trespasser or claim that you suffered injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The attorneys at Dunk Law Firm, will be prepared to tackle those issues and protect your right to full and fair compensation.

Types of Premises Liability Claims in Texas

A premises liability claim can arise in various circumstances. A few of the most common premises liability claims that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These incidents typically happen due to wet and slippery floors, poor lighting, broken and uneven walkways, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy sidewalks and parking lots. Additionally, a lot of falls occur because of defects such as broken stairways or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many people sustain injuries when improperly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when employees drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, in particular, expose occupants and their visitors to harm when they fail to perform regular inspections and remedy concerns such as mold accumulation, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Usually, their carelessness violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These incidents typically occur when building owners or tenants neglect to routinely inspect and maintain elevators and escalators in stores, shopping centers and office buildings.
• 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 an adequate criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings can occur if a property owner or occupier fails to adequately 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 Texas Premises Liability Claim

Our goal at Dunk Law Firm, will be to secure maximum compensation for you in your premises liability case. We know how hazardous property conditions can cause individuals to sustain 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 expenses
• Lost income (including lost future earning capacity)
• Pain and suffering
• Emotional 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 reject or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Dallas Premises Liability Lawyers Are Prepared to Help You

At Dunk Law Firm, 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 locate various other evidence such as surveillance camera footage. We also frequently consult with experts that help us to figure out how a hazardous property condition caused an accident. A big part of our investigation might 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.

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