PREMISES LIABILITY (SLIP & FALL)

If you are hurt at a store, hotel, apartment, or other business you may have a “premises liability” claim. These claims are often called “slip and fall” claims because they include things like falling on a wet floor, tripping over an object in the walkway, elevator injury incidents, tripping on a defective stairway or sidewalk, or slipping on ice or snow on a walkway or parking lot.

But premises claims are not limited to falls. For instance, premises liability claims include things like assaults, falling objects (we once handled a claim where a mattress fell on a woman at Sam’s Club), dog bites, electrocutions, or wall or ceiling collapse injury.

As you can see from the above, a premises liability claim just means that a business is responsible (or “liable” in legal terms) for injury caused on their premises through their negligence.

Damages recoverable in a premises liability case can include the following:

• Past and future pain and suffering
• Past and future loss of income
• Past and future medical costs
• Physical disability or disfigurement
• Loss of enjoyment of life
• Scar revision surgery
• Lost household or other “services”
• Wrongful death damages (see wrongful death section on Homepage)
• Punitive damages

Paul has handled thousands of premises liability claims with his current firm as well as with his former firm. He has made important contributions to Oklahoma law in this area and wrote the briefs the resulted in the Oklahoma Supreme Court overruling 500 year old precedent dating back to feudal England. Miller v. David Grace, Inc., 2009 OK 49, 212 P.3d 1223.

If you were hurt on a business call today to discuss your potential premises liability/slip and fall claim.