Injuries resulting from property hazards

Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters, P.C. represents the victims of all types of fall down accidents throughout the NYC metro area from our offices in Brooklyn. A slip and fall accident is the most common type of fall down injury, but there are several types:

• Trip and fall accidents, where there's a foreign object in the walking path
• Stump and fall accidents, where there's an impediment in the walking surface
• Step and fall accidents, where there's an unexpected failure or hole in the walking surface
• Slip and fall accidents, in which the interface of the shoe and the floor fails

There are numerous property hazards that may result in slip and fall accidents, including:

Establishing property owner negligence

To collect on your injury claim in these accidents, you must prove the person responsible for the location where these hazardous conditions occurred was negligent:

• This person owed you a duty to maintain a safe premises
• There was a connection between the other person's duty to you and your injury
• You suffered damages

New York comparative negligence laws

In a New York slip and fall injury lawsuit, both the property owner and the slip and fall victim can be held to varying degrees of responsibility or comparative fault based on the owner's duty to keep the property safe and the victim's duty to exercise ordinary care while walking on potentially slippery or otherwise dangerous surfaces. If you were careless and that contributed to your injury, the amount you can recover may be reduced in proportion to your fault under New York comparative negligence laws.

Navigating the complex details of the personal injury and comparative negligence laws requires a NY injury lawyer experienced with the specific and complex New York state laws and regulations that apply. A Brooklyn slip and fall attorney from Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters, P.C. is thoroughly knowledgeable about these rules, and has the experience to anticipate and plan to overcome the obstacles that may arise in your case.

Contact a Brooklyn slip and fall injuries lawyer at Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters, P.C., with any questions you may have about your legal rights, or to schedule a free consultation. Even more than Brooklyn slip fall attorneys, we consider ourselves client counselors. Let's look ahead. Together.

The Brooklyn slip and fall attorneys at Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters, P.C. represent clients with slip and fall injuries throughout the New York (NYC) metropolitan area, including the five boroughs: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Queens. We also serve Long Island's Suffolk and Nassau Counties, plus Westchester County and Putnam County.