Who Is Liable For A Slip And Fall Accident In A Restaurant?

Often slip and falls is a term that is used for personal injury cases when a person trips, slips, and falls which results in an injury on someone else’s property or business. These types of claims are placed in a category known as premises liability.

To learn who is liable for a slip and fall in a restaurant in which you were injured a number of factors must be discovered. What caused the fall?  Where did the slip and fall occur?

Hazardous conditions are the leading cause of slip and fall accidents in restaurants.  Some examples of hazardous conditions are:

• Poor lighting
• Wet floor
• Changes in flooring
• Torn carpet

All of the above hazardous conditions would make the restaurant liable for your slip and fall accident.

Hazardous conditions can also be present on the exterior of the restaurant; these conditions also put the restaurant liable for your slip and fall injuries.

In order for the owner to be held liable for your injuries, the property owner was negligent in fixing repairs that could harm a customer. The attorney for the restaurant owner will try to prove that you were reckless or not paying attention, which caused the fall.  Your personal injury attorney will fight these claims and strive to prove the liability is with the restaurant.

Your personally injury lawyer will have to prove that the  restaurant owner knew that a dangerous condition existed, created the condition, neglected to fix the problem, or that the problem existed for a length of time and that there was ample time to have the hazardous condition corrected.

For the restaurant owner to be liable the problem must have been foreseeable and that not fixing the repair was negligent on the part of the owner.

With a qualified lawyer you will be able to learn the options you have available for the injuries you sustained as well as determine if a legal claim woulld be in your best interest.