Maison Law represents injury victims hurt at discount stores like Dollar Tree. We help victims hold national chains fully accountable when their unsafe aisles cause customers to get hurt. To find out what you should be demanding from Dollar Tree after suffering an injury on its property, contact a skilled California lawyer and schedule a free consultation. It’s a no-risk way to determine what your injury is worth and how to hold a negligent business fully responsible.
Do I Need a Lawyer After Getting Injured at Dollar Tree?
If you only suffer very minor bumps or bruises in your accident, you may not need a lawyer’s help. But when your injuries are more serious, like broken fingers or head trauma after a fall, you’ll want some legal protection when having to ask a business for recovery help.
Dollar Tree may be a discount store, but it’s also a Fortune 500 company that can afford teams of lawyers to make getting help with your recovery difficult. They’ll focus on finding ways to blame you for your fall or convincing you to accept less than what you’ll need to pay for a full recovery.
Your California slip-and-fall lawyer is your safeguard against these tactics. Maison Law investigates what happened to you and secures all evidence. Then, your lawyer demands the maximum compensation available for what you’ve been put through.
Dollar Tree Aisle Hazards
Dollar Tree is a great place to find household goods and snacks for less. Many California residents make the discount store a weekly stop. Dollar Tree has been in the news for raising their prices above a dollar on some items. They may need to boost their earnings, but they are not allowed to save when it comes to customer safety.
The company is required to show a “duty of care” to every customer who enters. It’s a part of state laws covering “premises liability” for store owners. In fact, Dollar Tree is responsible for seeing to the safety of visitors even while they’re in the parking lot. When owners and operators leave obstacles out or leave sidewalks crumbling, the company is legally liable for helping injury victims pay for their medical bills.
These are just a few of the dangers customers may encounter:
- Slipping Hazards – Customers can leave puddles by spilling drinks. Children might dribble juice on those shiny floors or drop round candy. Freezer cases can leak puddles onto the floor. Victims can suffer head trauma and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI). Fractures to the bones in the hip joint are another common devastating result for victims.
- Tripping Hazards – Store workers might leave boxes on the floor that can catch a foot and cause someone to fall forward to suffer a cut on their face or a broken kneecap. A display may take up too much of those narrow aisles causing someone to trip. A rolled up carpet might be the thing that sends someone falling forward.
- Bathroom Hazards – For the locations that provide public bathrooms, those floors provide another dangerous risk. Pooling water and invisible soap on the floor can make it almost impossible for people to venture across safely. People are at risk of head injuries when falling so close to hard sinks and toilets.
- Shopping Cart Hazards – Someone careless with a shopping cart can run over a foot or ram an ankle to cause a serious injury. A cart left in a parking lot can also present an obstacle to people with mobility issues.
- Parking Lot Hazards – Dollar Tree is also liable for your journey into the store from the parking lot. Potholes, crumbling steps and sidewalks, and even landscaping timbers can trip customers up. Owners must fix these potential tripping hazards before someone stumbles to the ground. The store could also be liable for negligent security if you are the victim of a crime while going to your car due to the store operator’s lack of safety precautions. They may be liable for not providing enough security or maintaining too little lighting outside.
Common Slip-And-Fall Injuries
People sent to the ground in a slip-and-fall accident often fall sideways or backward. The injuries are especially concerning when people fall onto hard tile or pavement or topple over near shelving.
These are some of the more serious injuries that are treated in California emergency rooms each year:
- Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) involve a dangerous blow to the head. This strike can come from the corner of a shelf, a cement pylon around a gas pump, or just a hard smack to the back of the head on the floor. The symptoms can involve a minor concussion but lead to something as serious as seizures and memory loss
- The back and spinal cord can be damaged. A nagging back injury can be with you for decades and at times keep you from attending work. Spine and vertebrae injuries can lead to paralysis and a permanent disability.
- Dislocations and sprains. A hard fall can dislocate a shoulder, an ankle, or fingers. Ligaments and tendons can be strained to result in painful, long-lasting issues.
- Fractures. A broken hip can be a dangerous injury at any age. Hips can take a while to heal and all the while put you at risk of other health issues. Someone falling forward can break a kneecap or fall on their face to break a nose or jawbone. Victims can lose teeth. People often throw their hands out to catch themselves as they fall. They can break fingers, wrists, and arms.
Compensation Available for Dollar Tree Trip-And-Fall Victims
Your lawyer files an injury claim on your behalf, backed with all evidence available. Your lawyer uses this strong evidence to demand compensation for every hardship you and your family have endured during recovery.
These and other factors all decide how much you’ll receive in an accident injury settlement check:
- Totals on medical expenses including estimates on care expected to be needed in the future.
- Costs associated with a permanent physical disability such as medical equipment, and renovations at home and work. Potential costs for education to learn a new career.
- Emotional and physical distress. The physical pain you experience and the anxiety and depression that may follow a traumatic incident and injury.
- Loss of enjoyment of life.
- Loss of consortium. The loss of intimacy with a spouse due to injury.
- Travel expenses. Money spent getting to appointments and seeing specialists that may in other cities. This may be expensive while you are on crutches or in a wheelchair.
- Paychecks and benefits you’ve forfeited while missing work.
- Damage to personal items.
Schedule a Free Consultation with a California Dollar Tree Accident Lawyer
After a slip-and-fall accident involving a serious injury at a store like Dollar Tree, take action to hold at-fault store chains fully responsible. Contact the skilled California Slip-And-Fall Accident Lawyers at Maison Law, for a free consultation and case evaluation. It’s a no-risk way to find out how much you should demand from a discount store and how to keep companies from dodging blame.
There’s no obligation, but if you feel we can help you earn more for your injury, you don’t have to worry about having the money to hire Maison Law. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then our attorney’s fee comes out of the money Dollar Tree provides to you and your family.
