Mendez and Sanchez - Premises Liability Attorneys in Montebello, California

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Unsafe conditions like faulty wiring, poorly stacked merchandise and loose carpeting cause accidents leading to major injury. Businesses and property owners have an important responsibility to create safe environments for their customers and visitors. This also includes walkways and parking lots, along with the people they hire. Employees are there to serve and at times, even protect individuals who go to their places of business. The attorneys at Mendez & Sanchez, are experienced in the legal responsibilities and liabilities of businesses or organizations that fail to offer these safe environments.

You can easily suffer injury through no fault of your own when you go to property such as a store, office building, motel or apartment complex. If the owner or occupier of the property knew of a hazardous condition or activity that resulted in your injury and failed to take timely, practical steps to protect you from it, you may be qualified to recover full compensation for all damage you have suffered. You should immediately get help from an experienced Montebello premises liability attorney.

Premises Liability Cases in California

When you work with Mendez & Sanchez, we will thoroughly examine the facts of your claim. We will identify and pursue all of your legal options against the owner or occupier of the property where your injury took place. Typically, the issues that we will focus on include:

• Duty-- Did you legally visit the property? For example, were you a customer at a store, a visitor at a hotel or a social guest at someone's residence? If so, the property owner or occupant owed a duty to exercise ordinary care to ensure that the property was safe for you. In other words, the owner or occupant needed to take reasonable steps to protect you from any dangerous condition on the property that the owner or occupier knew or reasonably should have known about and which you would not have been expected to find on your own.
• Breach-- Did the owner or occupier neglect to fix the hazardous condition in a reasonable, timely way or, at the very least, to alert you about it? If so, the owner failed to fulfill the duty owed to you and could be held legally responsible for your injuries.
• Causation-- Did the negligence of the owner or occupier contribute to the injuries that you suffered, or did something else-- possibly your own actions-- cause the injuries?
• Damages-- Did you suffer actual harm because of the failure of the property owner or occupier to fulfill the duty owed to you? This means that you must prove that you suffered genuine physical, emotional and/or financial harm.

It is always important to look at the ways a property owner or occupant will try to avoid liability. For example, the owner or occupier may claim that you were a trespasser or argue that you sustained injuries because you walked into an "open and obvious" hazard. The attorneys at Mendez & Sanchez, will be prepared to tackle those issues and protect your right to full and fair compensation.

Types of Premises Liability Claims in California

A premises liability claim can emerge in various circumstances. A few of the most common premises liability claims that our law firm handles include:

• Slip and falls-- These incidents typically occur because of wet and slippery floors, poor lighting, damaged and uneven sidewalks, torn or frayed carpeting and icy or snowy sidewalks and parking lots. Additionally, a lot of falls occur due to defects such as damaged stairways or handrails.
• Falling objects-- Many people sustain injuries when poorly stacked merchandise falls from store shelves or when workers drop tools, equipment and materials at construction sites.
• Contamination-- Landlords, in particular, subject occupants and their guests to harm when they fail to conduct routine inspections and remedy concerns such as mold buildup, lead paint, carbon monoxide or gas leaks. Often, their neglect violates local building codes.
• Escalator and elevator accidents-- These incidents often happen when building owners or tenants neglect to regularly inspect and maintain elevators and escalators in stores, shopping centers and office buildings.
• Negligent security-- Many assaults occur in shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, hotels and motels because property owners and managers fail to protect visitors from known security risks, or they hire employees without an adequate criminal background check.
• Swimming pool accidents-- Drownings and near-drownings can occur if a property owner or occupier neglects to properly maintain a swimming pool and features such as slides and diving boards. Swimming pool owners should also use a fence or locked gate to keep out children and protect against the foreseeable risk of an accident.

Compensation in a California Premises Liability Claim

Our goal at Mendez & Sanchez, will be to acquire maximum compensation for you in your premises liability claim. We understand how dangerous property conditions can cause individuals to sustain serious, life-changing injuries such as traumatic brain injury, back and spine injuries, fractures, burns and soft tissue injuries. We will work hard to pursue damages on your behalf such as:

• Past and future medical costs
• Lost wages (including lost future earning capacity)
• Pain and suffering
• Psychological distress
• Wrongful death damages (if you lost your loved one)
• Punitive damages

We will determine all sources of compensation for you and aggressively challenge any attempts by the property owner or occupant (or its insurance provider) to blame you for your injuries and deny or reduce the amount of your claim.

Our Montebello Premises Liability Lawyers Are Ready to Help You

At Mendez & Sanchez, we will move quickly to investigate your case. We work with skilled investigators who can document the scene of your accident, talk with witnesses and track down various other evidence such as surveillance camera footage. We also routinely consult with experts who help us to figure out how a dangerous property condition caused an accident. A big part of our investigation can involve locating the identity of the property owner or person who was otherwise in control of the premises where you or a loved one was injured.

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