Premises Liability in Houston, TX

Houston Premises Liability Lawyer

Unsafe conditions like faulty wiring, improperly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents resulting in 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, along with individuals they employ. Employees are there to serve and at times, even protect people that visit their places of business. The attorneys at Dunk Law Firm, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of businesses 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 occupant of the property knew of a dangerous condition or activity that caused your injury and failed to take timely, practical actions to protect you from it, you might be qualified to recover full compensation for all damage you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Houston premises liability lawyer.

Premises Liability Claims in Texas

When you consult with Dunk Law Firm, we will thoroughly examine the facts of your claim. 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 focus 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 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 reasonable measures to protect you from any hazardous 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 discover on your own.
• Breach-- Did the owner or occupant fail 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 sustained, or did something else-- possibly your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual harm as a result of the failure of the property owner or occupant to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you need to prove that you suffered real physical, emotional and/or financial harm.

It is always important to look at the ways a property owner or occupant will attempt to avoid liability. For instance, the owner or occupier 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 ready to take on 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 many different situations. Some of the most common premises liability cases that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These incidents often occur because of wet and slippery floors, poor lighting, damaged and uneven walkways, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy walkways and parking lots. In addition, a lot of falls occur due to defects such as broken stairs or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many people sustain injuries when poorly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when employees drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, in particular, expose tenants and their guests to harm when they fail to conduct regular inspections and remedy issues such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their oversight violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These incidents typically occur when building owners or tenants fail to routinely inspect and maintain elevators and escalators in stores, shopping centers and office buildings.
• Negligent security-- Many assaults occur in shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, hotels and motels because property owners and managers fail to protect visitors from known security hazards, or they hire employees without a sufficient criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings might occur if a property owner or occupant fails to properly 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 Texas Premises Liability Claim

Our goal at Dunk Law Firm, will be to secure maximum compensation for you in your premises liability case. We understand how dangerous property conditions can cause people 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 costs
• 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 occupant (or its insurance company) to blame you for your injuries and deny or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Houston Premises Liability Attorneys Are Prepared to Help You

At Dunk Law Firm, we will move quickly to investigate your case. We work with experienced investigators who can document the scene of your accident, talk with witnesses and track down various other evidence such as surveillance camera footage. We also routinely consult with experts that help us to figure out how a dangerous 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.

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