How many instances have their been in your school where a pupil or member of staff has tripped over a trailing cable or
slipped on a wet floor in the bathroom because there was not a «caution: wet floor» sign?
Slipping on a wet floor or slick sidewalk and onto your back can injure your spine.
The claimant
slipped on a wet floor in the bathroom of the Nanaimo Burger King restaurant and injured his right shoulder and right knee.
Even a mere
slip on a wet floor in a grocery store or a trip on a floating casino riverboat could cause an injury that takes months or years to fully recover from.
Our client
slipped on a wet floor tile while working at an Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH store and suffered a neck injury that required surgery.
That means that, if you go to your local coffee shop and
slip on a wet floor, you can sue the coffee shop to recover compensation for your injuries.
Public liability claim: Another client
slipped on a wet floor as she entered a bar on holiday in Mexico, fracturing her foot.
I slipped on a wet floor a guy was mopping.
You can trip on loose carpeting or a carpet ridge,
slip on a wet floor, fall down in a badly lit hallway, or suffer an attack at the hands of someone who should have been stopped by security.
Acuity's business liability insurance protects you when someone takes legal action against you, including your defense costs when a customer
slips on a wet floor or falls on incorrectly installed stairs.
While visiting a mall
you slip on a wet floor where no warning sign was posted.
The same thing happens if someone
slips on a wet floor in your bathroom or gets food poisoning from your cooking.
If a neighbor
slips on your wet floors and breaks her arm, liability insurance will be needed to pay her medical expenses and your legal fees when she sues.
This can occur if someone
slips on a wet floor or trips over a loose floorboard.
For example, if you own a storefront retail establishment and a customer
slips on wet floor while shopping, you may face liability charges for medical expenses.
This coverage also protects you if somebody gets injured while in your premises (e.g.
slipping on a wet floor).
I slipped on a wet floor with a live chicken in each hand (yes, really; the osteo had never heard that one before either) and hurt my back, so I'm off to get fixed up.
Not exact matches
So you don't have to worry about
slip on wet concrete or shiny
floor.
At the same time, though, courts have refused to apply the defense of assumption of risk when educators failed to provide adequate supervision such as where a competitor in a track and field meet was struck by an errant discus while standing in a safe zone; a student was injured during an indoor (American) football practice when he
slipped on a
wet gym
floor where coaches failed to provide proper supervision or after another player was injured due to the lack of supervision at a practice; coaches did not warn a student sufficiently about the dangers of diving into a pool; coaches conducted a track practice in a high school hallway that unreasonably increased a student's risk of injury; and a coach lacked enough experience to provide adequate supervision to avoid injury to a cheerleader.
They need to think about
slips and trips inside from items of clothing and
wet floors, and
slips on ice and snow, falling and decaying leaves, and of course, rainfall.
Perhaps you
slipped on a spot of
wet floor inside a clothing outlet, or fell down an escalator because there was no sign indicating that the escalator was dysfunctional.
If you are in a grocery store and you
slip and fall
on a
wet floor, most likely you will associate the grocery store with some sort of blame for that.
For example, if a section of the
flooring is
wet and the owner of the property has already placed adequate barriers and warning signs telling other persons not to walk
on the area, yet someone still walked through the area in question and
slipped and fell, it is especially obvious that blame can not be assigned to the owner of the property.
While a patron at a Wal - Mart, Ms. Asher
slipped and fell
on a
wet area
on the
floor.
If, for instance, you
slip and fall because of an un-shoveled walkway or
wet floor where someone else is at fault, insurance companies and their lawyers can allege that you contributed to your own downfall by being
on the cell phone, thereby being distracted and not ensuring your own safety.
If you
slipped and fell
on faulty stairs or
wet floors, were injured due to ice and snow in a parking lot, or otherwise injured due to a negligently maintained property, you have a right to compensation.
For example, if you're walking through the Prudential Center Mall and you
slip on a
floor that was recently cleaned, but no sign was posted to alert of the dangers of the
wet floor, you could feasibly file a claim for damages.
While
slip - and - fall incidents do make up a large percentage of these types of claims, this category of the law is not merely limited to people
slipping on a
floor that was negligently left
wet at the supermarket.
Other simple examples of ways that injuries can occur inside a Target is by improperly - hung displays falling
on a customer,
slip - and - fall injuries occurring from
wet floors that aren't properly cleaned up or perhaps a shelving unit malfunctions in an aisle, raining product down
on an unsuspecting customer below.
If your injury was directly caused by lack of security or lighting, or you
slipped and fell
on a
wet floor, then the property owner may be held accountable for any injuries that you sustain.
To take a common situation, say you
slip and fall
on a
wet floor in a supermarket.
One of the most common types of premises liability claims,
slip and fall accidents may occur because a property owner is negligent and allows a hazardous condition to exist or persist
on the premises, such as a
wet floor, missing stair or defective carpeting.
When you get hit by falling debris, when you
slip on your own
wet floor, etc..
You may be out to dinner in downtown Salt Lake City when you
slip and fall
on a
wet floor.
Slip and falls may also be common is a spill or
wet spot
on the slick linoleum
flooring isn't cleaned immediately.
You could be shopping at the Gateway in Salt Lake City when you
slipped and fell
on a
wet floor.
In example would be a delivery driver who
slips and falls
on the steps of a home he is delivering a product to, or a cook who
slips and falls
on a
wet and slippery
floor that was caused by an outside cleaning company.
A common
slip and fall case occurs when someone
slips on tracked in water inside a business, or a customer in a grocery store
slips on a liquid, or a mopped
floor where no signs have been placed warning of the
wet floor.
So if Ms. Jensen
slipped on spilled orange juice without a
Wet Floor sign nearby
on aisle 4 at the grocery store and cracked her collarbone, her legal options for a personal injury case are much less of a burden
on top of everything else she already has to deal with.
If you have suffered a trip or
slip injury whilst shopping or have been injured by falling over an object,
slipping on a
wet or slippery
floor or any other kind of injury that was not your fault, you could be eligible for personal injury compensation.
If someone visiting your home
slips and falls
on your
wet bathroom
floor and requires medical attention because he hit his head, he might decide to sue you to pay for his medical expenses.
If a visitor
slips on your
wet kitchen
floor and breaks his leg, he can sue you for negligence.
It's important that if someone
slips on a
wet shower tray or
floor and falls into it, the glass won't shatter into shards and become a serious hazard.