With thousands of stores throughout the United States, Wal-Mart is easily the largest retainer in the country. It has somewhere around 320- stores in California alone. Millions of people pull off of roadways and into Walmart parking lots where they exit their vehicles and walk to Walmart store entrances in order to pick up an item or a shopping cart full of them. If customers need a refrigerator, a washer and dryer or a television, they can arrange for those purchases too.
Wal-Mart Slip-and-Fall and Trip-and-Fall Accidents
It’s probably safe to say that while being the largest retailer in America, Walmart also has more slip-and-falls and trip-and-falls than any other business entity in the country. What comes to issue for customers is that when they try to obtain help from the retailer for their injuries and damages, they’re subject to utter disdain and indifference. These types of accidents cause serious and permanent injuries and even deaths on Walmart properties. Here are just a few examples:
- 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 injuries an d fractures.
- Facial and dental fractures.
California Premises Liability Law
California requires an owner and occupier of a property to maintain it in a reasonably safe and careful manner. Especially when members of the general public are welcome on the property for commercial purposes. Under such circumstances, owners and occupiers must perform periodic inspections to assure that conditions haven’t arisen that might cause others who are lawfully on the property to become injured. If such a condition is discovered, it must be repaired immediately. Between the time of discovery and undertaking repairs, sufficient warnings must be placed at or near the defect.
Who is CMI?
Walmart has its own claims processing company and adjusters at Claims Management Inc. Although it purports to be a separate and distinct entity from Walmart, the retailer is its only client. For example, if you sustain an injury in a Walmart slip-and-fall or trip-and-fall, and you report the accident and injury, they’ll assign an individual from CMI to your claim file.
Before You Speak to CMI
If you elect to speak with CMI, expect to be painted into a legal corner with your own words. Then, after you failed to protect your rights, the CMI representative may say they can’t help you. Now, if you tell him or her that you’re going to go get a lawyer and file a personal injury lawsuit, they’ll tell you all of the evidence that you disclosed in the claim stage will be used against you in your lawsuit. It will too, and it’s highly likely that you’ve already substantially prejudiced your personal injury lawsuit before you even walked in the courthouse doors.
Now that you know how Walmart and CMI are going to try to prejudice you and your case, you should recognize that nothing like this is going to happen if you contact and retain our California slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall lawyers at Maison Law right away after your accident. Indeed, you need to report that accident to management right away. However, if you sustain an injury, have paramedics take you to an urgent care center or hospital right away. Then, contact us for a free confidential consultation and case evaluation right way. You can tell us about how your California Walmart slip-and-fall or trip-and-fall happened, and how it has impacted your daily life. After that, we’ll advise you on how we believe you should approach your case.
By simply consulting with us without speaking to CMI, you’re preserving and protecting your rights. Furthermore, you are not giving the company’s adjusters anything at all to use against you. You’re already in a far better negotiating position, with highly experienced and aggressive California personal injury slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall law firm pushing your case forward. Contact us at Maison Law right away after sustaining an injury in any California Walmart slip-and-fall or trip-and-fall accident. You need to speak with us before you speak with anybody else who is going to use your own words against you.
Contact a California Wal-Mart Slip-and-Fall Lawyer
A Wal-Mart slip-and-fall accident may be serious enough to affect your daily life forever. With medical bills piling up, or loss of ability to work, you may need financial compensation. Learn whether Wal-Mart is responsible for your injuries.
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