Maison Law represents slip-and-fall victims hurt at businesses like Walmart in California.
We help victims hold this massive store chain fully accountable when their unsafe aisles cause customers to fall and get hurt.
To find out what you should be demanding from Walmart after suffering an injury on its property, contact a skilled, local lawyer and schedule a free, no-obligation case consultation.
California Walmart Slip And Fall Injury Claim Process
Do I Need a Lawyer After Taking a Fall at a California Walmart?
If you slip and fall or trip at a Walmart and your injuries are serious, like a hand fracture or a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), you may need the protection of a skilled California Walmart slip-and-fall lawyer. When your injury was caused by the carelessness of Walmart and its employees, you can seek full compensation for your recovery costs. Unfortunately, Walmart will fight back when you blame them for your injury.
Walmart’s insurance adjusters and corporate lawyers look for ways to blame you for the accident or question how serious your injuries are. Your Maison Law attorney is a safeguard against this treatment. Your lawyer investigates the accident and submits all evidence to force a business to accept responsibility and pay the maximum compensation available.
Who Is Responsible If I Suffer an Injury at Walmart?
Walmart opens its doors to customers all day long at California locations. They want to sell lots of products and make their profits, but they can’t forget that they owe visitors a “duty of care” established by California premises liability law. A duty of care means they must see to the safety of customers as they walk across a parking lot, step through the automatic doors, and stroll the aisles.
Walmart managers and employees are expected to monitor the store for potential dangers and act to remove them. They must fix or repair the risks that employees create and risks that other customers leave behind. When they fail in these duties, and someone gets hurt, victims are empowered to seek full compensation for their injury hardships.
In order to have a case the victim would simply need to show the hazard was:
- Created by the Walmart, or
- Walmart knew about the hazard or should have known and didn’t fix it in a reasonable amount of time.
Corporate store owners can deny they created the issue or say that they didn’t have enough time to catch the problem caused by a shopper. Your lawyer will investigate your case and collect powerful evidence to prove otherwise.
California Walmart Slip-And-Fall Dangers
Walmart is liable for these and other obstacles that could cause harm to you or a family member:
- Aisle Slip-And-Fall Dangers – Spills from drinks from the Walmart snack shop or McDonald’s in-store locations can end up on any aisle when shoppers and their children have accidents. Victims often throw out their hands to catch themselves in a fall, making a wrist or hand injury more likely.
- Aisle Trip-And-Fall Dangers — Employees attempting to restock merchandise can leave small boxes on the floor that cause a trip-and-fall accident. Cluttered store displays or folded-up rugs might also catch a foot and leave you falling face first.
- Produce and Dairy Section Dangers – Water sprayers can leave puddles around salad cases. Melting ice cream or leaking milk might wind up pooling under freezer cases, just out of sight, but not far enough away from your foot.
- Bathroom Hazards – Water and soap on the floor can make it almost impossible for people to venture across safely. Taking a fall around a stall or a sink might cause a victim to suffer a devastating blow to the head and a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
- Parking Lot Hazards – Walmart’s liability doesn’t stop at the front door. It extends to each parking spot and cart corral. A pothole or a crumbling sidewalk might send you down on your knee or, worse, leave you to absorb a fall with your face. When customers are tracking in rainwater, it’s also necessary to keep the entrances mopped up and “wet floor” signs out.
Walmart Slip-and-Falls and Trip-and-Falls
Walmart may be the business that sees the most customers each day in California. All that foot traffic can leave obstacles behind like a busted salad dressing bottle or a child’s juice box dribbled on the tile.
Victims stepping on these hazards can be launched forward or sent into the air to catch the edge of a shelf or on the hard floor.
These are just a few of the commonly resulting injuries that can require many trips to the doctor and months of physical therapy:
- Skull fractures and Traumatic Brain Injuries.
- Neck fractures and permanent spinal cord damage.
- Shoulder, elbow, arm, wrist, and hand fractures.
- Dangerous hip and leg fractures along with knee and ankle sprains and fractures.
- Facial and dental fractures.
What Our Clients Say
What Kinds of Things Can I Earn Compensation for After a Slip-And-Fall Accident?
Your Slip-And-Fall attorney thoroughly investigates the incident that left you in pain and in need of medical care. Your attorney would also work with your doctor to secure medical evidence of how bad your injury is.
A strong case backed by evidence and testimony will be key to preventing Walmart’s corporate lawyers or an insurance company from trying to shift the blame to you.
You’ll list every hardship you’ve endured since the accident in your claim so that the insurance company is well aware of everything they must cover in a settlement check.
These and other damages will factor into how much compensation you receive:
- Hospital and medical expenses in the present and those expected in the months to come.
- Costs associated with a permanent physical disability such as future medical equipment needs, house upgrades, and training for a new career.
- Physical pain. The devastating effects chronic pain can have on a patient over a lifetime and the cost of pain medication over months and years.
- Emotional Distress. The anxiety and depression that can follow a terrible accident and being unable to enjoy the freedoms the victim once did. Emotional distress may include the trauma experienced by family members as they cope with the loss of certain activities the victim can no longer participate in.
- Paychecks lost while missing work.
- Travel costs. The expense of traveling to numerous doctor’s appointments. The expense of seeing out-of-city or out-of-state specialists.
Frequently Asked Questions About Slip-and-Fall Accidents at Walmart
You won’t need any money to hire a Maison Law lawyer for your case. We don’t accept any payment unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check Walmart provides.
Two Years. Walmart allows you two years from the date of your injury to seek compensation. If you wait longer, your chance to earn support will likely be lost.
If you are hurt, call 911. Get checked out by paramedics and go to the emergency room if necessary. If you are able, try to get photos of the obstacle that caused you to slip or trip and get hurt. Alert a manager about what happened and make sure an incident report is filled out. Get contact information from witnesses.
Contact a Walmart Slip-and-Fall Lawyer
After a slip-and-fall accident at Walmart, be sure to discuss your case with an experienced slip-and-fall attorney serving all of California. You should be able to focus on your recovery without worrying over the hospital bills piling up and the paychecks you’re missing while out of work.
Allow Maison Law to go to work on your case to secure the most compensation possible for your recovery from the Walmart Corporation. We don’t back down from major companies and corporations when our clients need support to rebuild their lives. Contact us today for a free case evaluation to find out how we can help you pay for recovery and get back on your feet physically and financially.
