Poughkeepsie Slip and Falls Attorney
Serving Throughout Dutchess County
During winter weather months, the rainy season and year-round, New York business and property owners have a duty to keep their premises reasonably safe for their customers or others on their property. When a slip and fall injury occurs, the results can range from the painful and embarrassing to the most serious injuries, including permanent disability or death. A Poughkeepsie slip and falls attorney at the Law Office of Taran M. Provost, PLLC will apply years of skill and dedication to help you get the proper medical care and compensation after you have been injured in a slip and fall in Dutchess County.
When Poughkeepsie business owners are liable for slip and fall injuries on their property
Poughkeepsie business owners can be held liable for harm caused by any dangerous condition they caused or created. Even if the property owner did not create the danger, they can still be liable for any hazard that they knew or should have known about yet didn’t fix or provide a warning of in a reasonable time. This duty goes beyond obvious dangers that come naturally to the property owner’s attention; business owners in Poughkeepsie have an affirmative duty inspect their premises for unknown dangers.
Why you need a Poughkeepsie slip and falls attorney after a slip and fall injury
Proving a case of premises liability against a Poughkeepsie business owner is never easy, and property owners and their insurance companies try many different tactics to avoid liability. If the hazard was obvious and the owner clearly knew about it, they will claim that it should have been obvious to the victim as well, who must not have been watching where he or she was going. Our experienced Poughkeepsie slip and fall accident lawyers work hard to defend you against claims that your own negligence was responsible for your slip and fall injury. Remember that in New York, even if you are deemed partly responsible for a slip and fall, such as by not noticing an obvious danger, you can still hold the property owner liable for their share of negligence in maintaining a dangerous condition on their property without fixing it or warning the public about it with a sign or other notice.
If the danger is not obvious, property owners will claim they had no duty to fix or warn about a danger they did not know about. After years in practice as slip and fall accident lawyers in Poughkeepsie, we understand the property owner’s duty to regularly inspect the property for unknown dangers. We know how to build a strong case demonstrating that the property owner had constructive notice of the hazardous condition on the premises, meaning they would have discovered it through reasonable care.
Many times, a slip and fall is caused by a temporary condition on the premises. Most often this condition is a slippery floor caused by tracked in rain or snow or from a food or drink spill. When weather conditions are likely to make a floor slippery, store owners should be aware of this fact and use appropriate safety measures, including floor mats, frequent mopping and caution signs. In the case of a food or drink spill in a grocery store, restaurant or other establishment, this hazard is something owners, managers and employees should be aware of, routinely inspect for and promptly clean up. A Poughkeepsie slippery floor injury attorney knows how to prove that a hazard created by a transitory foreign substance existed for an unreasonable length of time without being corrected, allowing an unsuspecting victim to slip and fall and get hurt.
Get Help after a Poughkeepsie Slip and Fall Injury
If you or a loved one has been injured in a slip and fall accident in Poughkeepsie or Dutchess County, call the Law Office of Taran M. Provost, PLLC at 845-675-3243 for a no-cost, confidential consultation about your potential claims. Act quickly so an experienced Poughkeepsie slip and falls attorney can investigate the accident and make sure important evidence is preserved. There is no fee until after we recover compensation for you through an insurance settlement or jury verdict in court.
