Maison Law is committed to helping Save Mart slip-and-fall victims secure the recovery support they need, especially when they must seek help from unhelpful grocery chains. To find out what you should be demanding from Save Mart, contact a skilled Visalia Slip-And-Fall Lawyer and schedule a free consultation. It’s a no-risk way to determine what your injury is worth and how to hold the negligent corporation that caused your fall fully responsible.
Do I Need a Lawyer If I Fall and Get Hurt at Save Mart?
If you slip and take a fall on a Save Mart aisle and come away with only some soreness and minor bruising, you may not need the help of a lawyer.
But when your fall leads to a more serious injury, like a broken bone or a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), it’s important to know about every benefit available to you before a Save Mart insurance representative tells you otherwise. Your Visalia Grocery Store Slip-And-Fall Lawyer can tell you just what store owners should provide to you and then collect evidence to make sure they don’t wiggle out of taking responsibility. You’ll also want a legal protector for your case when Save Mart calls upon its corporate lawyers to attack your case.
Save Mart may look for ways to blame you for your fall, such as saying you were just clumsy. They may also cast doubt on how bad your injury is. Your lawyer protects you from these tactics and can often secure more for your injury than you could by filing a claim yourself.
Save Mart Slip-And-Fall Accident Dangers
Plenty of people make regular stops at Save Mart stores, like those locations on Goshen Ave and Noble Avenue. It’s handy to run in and out with a grocery list, but those store aisles also carry the potential for accidents.
It’s especially true when store managers allow their stores to become cluttered or messy. People can take hard falls onto the tile or the pavement outside.
Under California’s premises liability laws, if you are lawfully on someone else’s property, that person or business owes you a “duty of care.” This duty covers Save Mart customers and means that owners and operators must ensure that visitors have a safe path in and out of the business, even through the parking lot.
Proprietors must fix any hazards they create and must monitor for hazards that other customers create and clean them up in a reasonable amount of time. If you are hurt by an obstacle left unattended by employees, the business owners and operators can be held responsible for all medical bills and other damages.
- Aisle Dangers – A child may dribble juice on the floor. Puddles may develop in the produce section. Boxes may be left along the aisle. These obstacles can trip you up or cause a slip-and-fall, resulting in a back or hip injury. Broken glass can leave you with deep cuts. If your head hits a shelf, you could develop a severe concussion.
- Bathroom Dangers – Bathroom floors get extra slick with water and the addition of soap to the mix. You could slip and take a hard blow to the head and suffer a skull or brain injury.
- Parking Lot Hazards – The parking spaces and sidewalks outside of stores also pose a risk. Potholes in parking lots or a crumbling entrance may trip you and cause you to suffer a broken kneecap or a hand or wrist injury. Rain also gets tracked into the front door area to create an immediate slip-and-fall hazard.
- Falling merchandise and Exposed Wiring – You may not take a tumble, but something may tumble off a shelf and injure you. Heavy products sitting overhead often come loose to injure anyone who happens to be walking by. Wiring left exposed can also present a shock hazard. Sometimes, store managers are negligent and leave these hazards unrepaired until someone gets seriously hurt.
These are all reasons you could hold a grocery chain liable for each step of your recovery. However, you’ll need solid proof of the store’s negligence to deflect an insurance adjuster’s unhelpful tactics. They’ll look for ways to pin the entire thing on you. You’ll want a skilled legal representative from Maison Law of Visalia to build your case and back it with evidence that’s hard to deny.
Support for Injuries After a Fall at a Visalia Business
Slip-and-fall victims should get full support to help cover every doctor bill and physical therapy cost. The ambulance and emergency room fees should be paid in full. They should also receive help in replacing the paychecks they forfeited while out of work. A skilled lawyer can also secure victims additional compensation for the pain they’ve been through and the emotional trauma of injury recovery.
These benefits are critical to helping folks get back to their normal lives as soon as possible. People may not think about falls as major threats to their wellbeing, but people are hurt in stores and other businesses every day.
These are just a few of the injuries shoppers could be rushed to the emergency room with:
- Broken Wrists, Hands, and Arms – Trip-and-Fall victims can try to cushion a fall by throwing their hands out. Fingers, wrists, and elbows might suffer fractures. Fingers and shoulders might also be dislocated.
- Hip Injuries – Victims, especially senior adults, can damage one of the bones in the hip joint and experience long-term mobility problems and chronic pain.
- Knee Cap Fractures – A trip-and-fall could send someone down on cement to place their full weight on the knee joint. Victims might suffer other complications resulting from the time they are bedridden as a knee heals.
- Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) – Victims suffer head trauma when hitting the floor or when striking something on the way down. A TBI might cause memory loss, seizures, and leave someone with a concussion.
- Facial Fractures – Victims may fall directly on their faces, injuring their noses and enduring permanent scarring. Victims might break their jaws or injure their eye sockets.
- Dental Injury – Victims who hit the floor with their chins or the side of their faces risk losing teeth and suffering a punctured lip.
Contact a Visalia Grocery Store Slip-and-Fall Lawyer
After a slip-and-fall accident, be sure to discuss your case with a Visalia Save Mart slip-and-fall attorney serving all of Tulare County. You are allowed two years after an accident to file an injury claim, but you should act quickly. Waiting months or years can mean valuable evidence disappears and witnesses become hard to locate.
Contact us today for a free case evaluation to find out how we can assist you. There’s no obligation, but if you feel we can help your family earn more, you won’t need any upfront money to pay Maison Law. Our lawyers work on a contingency basis. It means we don’t get paid unless we win your case. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check that Save Mart must send you.
