Your Walmart slip-and-fall settlement amount should be determined by several factors including the totals on your medical bills, and the number of paychecks you had to forfeit while missing work with an injury.
An insurer working for Walmart should never be allowed to determine what your injury and your hardships are worth. They will look to save Walmart as much money as possible and leave you without everything you need to pay for a full recovery.
A skilled lawyer can give you a better estimate of what you’ll need to demand, but first, your lawyer would need to hear the details of what happened to you. Your lawyer would then investigate the accident and Walmart’s role in it. Your lawyer would also work with your doctors to determine how long you’ll require care. These factors and others must all be considered when deciding what type of settlement offer you’ll accept.
Estimating the Size of Your Walmart Slip-and-Fall Settlement Award
California Walmarts are busy places where hazards will arise constantly. Those dangers will remain in place unless monitored for and cleaned up or fixed. Walmart employees can stock shelves and leave boxes behind to become tripping hazards. They can delay fixing leaking freezer cases, causing puddles on the tile to cause slipping accidents.
Under premises liability laws, Walmart is responsible for protecting customers from potential fall hazards around the store that employees may accidentally create. They are also liable for the fall risks that other customers may create, such as a child leaving round candy on the floor or spilling a soft drink.
When visitors are allowed to get hurt by dangers that could have been cleaned up or fixed, victims can seek help with recovery costs from Walmart.
The size of the injury settlement check they’d have to write would depend on several factors. The process of negotiation over the value of injuries begins with the severity of the injury and how long the patient takes to heal. Everyone heals at their own pace, and that’s why it’s hard to estimate a settlement. Every case plays out differently.
The longer a broken wrist, a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), or a dislocation takes to mend, the more doctor and physical therapy bills build up.
The medical expenses and these other factors will largely determine what you receive:
- Final totals on medical bills
- Estimates on future care if you suffer a long-term injury or a permanent physical disability
- Totals on compensation for the levels of pain you must endure
- Totals of compensation you should receive for the emotional harm an accident and difficult recovery can cause
- The tally on the paychecks you’ve lost while your injury has prevented you from going to work
- The cost of travel to visit medical specialists and surgeons who may be located out of the area
Forcing Walmart to Accept Blame for Its Negligence in a Slip-And-Fall Accident
Of course, the much-needed injury support you’ll have to seek is only available if Walmart accepts responsibility. They’ll have corporate lawyers ready to attack your case. They’ll try to blame your fall on you, perhaps claiming that the bottoms of your shoes were worn out. They’ll also work to downplay your injuries so they can get away with offering you much less than you’ll need to fully recover physically and financially.
Having a lawyer of your own is a safeguard against these types of attacks on your case. Your lawyer can also handle this whole frustrating process while allowing you to focus on healing.
Your lawyer will be using hard evidence, such as surveillance video, photos from the scene of the accident, and witness testimony, to give Walmart no choice but to accept financial responsibility. Your lawyer can often secure much more for your injury recovery than you could secure by filing your claim yourself.
Contact a California Slip-And-Fall Accident Lawyer
Speak with a skilled California Walmart slip-and-fall accident lawyer after any fall caused by the negligence of the store owners or employees that leaves you with a serious injury. It’s important to know about every benefit available to you and your family because lawyers working for Walmart won’t be informing you about all of your options.
Contact Maison Law for a free, no-obligation consultation. It’s a no-risk way to find out what your injury is worth and what you should demand from unhelpful insurance companies.
If you decide we can help you earn more for your physical and financial recovery, you won’t need any upfront money to hire a lawyer. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then, our pay comes out of the settlement money Walmart is forced to provide to you and your family.
