Sacramento Premises Liability Attorneys

Many different types of personal injuries qualify as a premise liability case. These include: 

• Slip and fall cases. In these cases, there may have been a defective staircase, snow or ice accumulation, or wet floors that caused you to slip or trip on someone else’s property. 
• Negligent supervision of children. When a parent leaves their child in the care of another, such as a teacher, daycare, or hospital, that person has a responsibility to care for the child. If a child has been injured because of lack of care, the injured person may have a premise liability case. 
• Dog bites. The presence of a potentially dangerous dog, who injures another, involves an unsafe condition on someone’s property. 
• Swimming pool accidents. These cases usually involve children and an unsupervised and/or unsecured pool. Most states and municipalities have laws and ordinances that require swimming pools to have a fence around them, often with a locking gate. 
• Elevator and escalator accidents. In these cases, there may have been a defective condition preventing the elevator or escalator from working properly.  
• Inadequate building security. These cases usually happen in apartment buildings or offices. Building owners have a duty to act reasonably in securing the building. If someone breaks in and assaults or kills someone inside the building, the injured person may have a premise liability case.  

Being injured on another’s property is not enough to successfully bring a premise liability case. Sometimes the property owner is responsible, but other times he or she isn’t. To win your case, the injured party must show that the property owner was negligent. Proving negligence usually involves showing that the property owner was careless in the upkeep of their property. Sometimes, proving negligence will require the services of experts in different areas like engineering, architecture, and fire prevention.