Blog Category - Premises Liability

Oct

Grocery Store Hazards in Florida

Grocery stores are an essential part of our daily lives. At the same time, they can also be places rife with hazards that can lead to injuries. Understanding these grocery store hazards is important. Equally important is knowing your legal rights if you or a loved one is injured...

Oct

Vacation Rental Injury: What Should You Do?

Staying at a vacation rental or Airbnb offers a unique and personalized lodging experience. Tourists can experience Florida while staying in a more home-like setting, as opposed to a hotel. They are very different experiences, each with its own pros and cons. While you give up th...

Oct

Parking Lot Accidents: Causes, Laws, and Legal Assistance

Last month, a Lake Worth parking lot accident sent a woman and child to the hospital. According to a news report, an SUV driver did not stop for the pedestrians as he turned. The SUV struck, and then ran over both victims, resulting in serious injuries. This unfortunate incident...

Oct

Homeowner’s Association Liability: Know Your Rights On HOA Property

Imagine this: It’s a beautiful day and you’re strolling towards the clubhouse in your private residential community in Florida. Suddenly, you trip over a raised area on the sidewalk. The excruciating pain in your right ankle and knee is immediate. Trying to stand, you collapse as...

Oct

Slip and Fall Video Evidence: What If the Business Fails to Preserve It?

Videos are crucial evidence in many personal injury cases, especially those involving slip and fall incidents. Imagine slipping and falling over a puddle of water in a store, with no wet floor sign nearby. You notice a surveillance camera directly above the area. Because of your...

Oct

Slip and Fall Incidents: Using Corporate Policies in South Florida

Slip and fall injuries occur much more frequently than people realize. The body twists or jerks into unnatural positions, resulting in serious injury. In the process, it tears muscles, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissues in the process. The injuries from slip and fall inci...

Oct

What Does “Open and Obvious” Mean and Why Does It Matter in Premises Liability Cases in Florida?

You are walking across a parking lot towards the grocery store, noticing a large hole that you always take great care to avoid, when your phone unexpectedly rings. You immediately fumble in your pocket to get it out and, the next thing you know, you are on the ground with a throb...

Oct

Negligent Security Actions and the Recent Legislative Changes to Florida Law

Someone is robbed at gunpoint in a shopping center in a bad neighborhood after withdrawing cash at night from an ATM underneath several burnt-out lights in the shopping center’s parking lot. The police later track down the assailant, who is criminally charged with both armed robb...

Oct

Trip and Fall: Who Is At Fault in a Florida?

If you have suffered a slip and fall or a trip and fall in Florida, you may not have the slightest idea who the right party to seek damages from for your injuries would be. An important concept to understand in premises liability cases like slip and fall or trip and fall scenario...

Oct

Is a Business Liable, if you are Robbed Outside of it?

South Florida has a considerable amount of crime, which comes as no surprise to anyone who lives in the area. Robberies are frequent and, like any major urban area, there are certain neighborhoods in which more crime takes place than others. Sometimes, however, crime takes place o...

Oct

What Is An Open and Obvious Hazard? How does it Impact my Florida Premises Liability Lawsuit?

On your way into your bank’s local branch to deposit a check, you trip and fall. You walked into the bank just like every other time, did not see a hole in the floor where one of the tiles was missing and in the process of being replaced, and stepped straight into the hole, twist...

Oct

Ten-Year-Old Seriously Injured in Florida Adventure Park Accident

A Florida boy recently was seriously injured in an accident after he fell nearly twenty feet from a zip line onto a concrete floor at an adventure park in Lakeland after not being properly strapped into a safety harness by park staff. These types of tragic incidents are unfortuna...

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