Premises Liability
The responsibility to keep public and private areas reasonably safe for all visitors falls upon the head of the owners and employees of those areas. When you are hurt in Los Angeles due to no fault of your own, on property that someone else is responsible for, it is important to consult with an attorney that knows his way around premise liability.
Loosely defined, California Law defines premises liability as having the following:
- The property was dangerous when the injury occured
- The injury was proximately caused by the dangerous condition
- The dangerous condition created a reasonably foreseeable risk of that particular injury
And that either:
- A negligent or wrongful act or omission of an employee, within the scope of their employment, created the dangerous condition
- The entity had actual or constructive notice of a dangerous condition and had sufficient time, as written in California code 835.2, prior to the injury to have taken measures to protect against the dangerous condition.
There are numerous variations of dangerous conditions and injuries that can come as a result of those specific dangers. However, some of the most commonly found injuries in Los Angeles are slip and fall damage, dog bite trauma, and construction zone accidents.
Slip and Fall
Slip and fall situations are some of the most common ways people are injured in Los Angeles. All it takes is a wet floor, a loose carpet, a bad stairway, or a faulty handrail for you to find yourself with a broken bone, concussion, chronic pain, or worse.
The Center for Disease Control states that over 800,000 people per year are hospitalized because of a fall and that most of these are due to a head or hip injury. Falls are also the most common cause of traumatic brain injury. When you are the victim of negligence that caused you to be injured by a fall, it is important to contact your attorney as soon as you are able. For more information about how Farshad can help you get compensation for your injury, please visit our Slip and Fall section.
Dog Bites
A dog bite can be a traumatic experience for people of all ages, not only physically, but also psychologically. One minute a dog could seem friendly and the next minute they could decide to become aggressive. Children are most at risk due to the fact that they do not possess the mental acuity to notice the signs of aggression in a canine.
A child sees a dog and thinks of a furry friend that they can pet and snuggle like one of their stuffed animals. Not all dogs are mean, but there is a reason that California law states that liability does not depend on the history of aggression of a dog. Small children, with their small and fragile bodies, can be seriously injured by a dog attack.
You may be an adult, but that does not mean that your size and age will protect you from a dog bite. It is not always possible to avoid contact with an aggressive dog, but if you can, it is advisable. If you or someone you are responsible for, such as a child, are attacked by a dog, you may be wondering who is responsible and what you should do about it.
The owner or caretaker of the dog is ultimately responsible for the dog and if the dog has a history of aggression they must have taken all precautions to keep the dog away from anyone who would be at risk of being bit. A common argument in court is that the victim was taunting the dog in some way. Do not let the person liable for your injury manipulate the court to see you as the aggressor. Visit our Dog Bite section to learn more about what Farshad can do to get you reparations for your physical/mental injury and your financial health.
Construction Site Accident
The last thing you should have to worry about when you are on a construction site operating heavy equipment, dangerous tools, or volatile chemicals is whether or not your supervisors are doing their job to keep the site safe. Your focus needs to be on the task at hand and making sure that you are doing all of your tasks correctly.
Construction sites are already full of potential hazards for you to navigate as you go about your day. Negligent safety procedures such as bypassing structural integrity checks, not requiring proper respiratory equipment, removing obvious fall risks and tripping hazards, and making sure personnel are sufficiently distanced from blast zones is the job of the people above you.
Injuries happen nearly every day on construction sites and most of the time they could have been prevented, but sadly due to negligence they were allowed to happen. If you feel you have been the unfortunate recipient of an injury on a construction site due to negligence, visit our Construction Site Accident section to learn more about how hiring Farshad to represent you could be the best decision you have ever made.