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If you sustained a personal injury because you slipped or tripped and fell, your accident may have been caused by the negligence of someone else and you may be able to sue for compensation for your pain and suffering. Every year, thousands of People in the New York Metropolitan area are injured in trip and fall or slip and fall accidents. Our New York City Sidewalk Lawyers are thoroughly experienced in handling personal injury cases involving slip and fall cases, both in New York City and in Westchester. Most of us don’t think about it, but our ability to walk or stand depends on the amount of traction between our shoes and the walking surface. Many slip and trips fall accidents are caused because of snow, ice, slippery conditions, poor and unstable walking surfaces, cracked sidewalks or defective stairs. Property owners are often at fault for slip and fall or trip and fall accidents, which have caused accident victims serious personal injuries.
To often people just think that if they fell it was their fault, but our Westchester and New York City personal injury lawyers who handle slip, trip and fall cases, know that most of the time, there are contributing factors to a slip or trip and fall accident that caused the person to fall. Some of these contributing factors are snow and ice, which wasn't properly cleaned up, or a broken or defective sidewalk, a dangerous staircase or some other dangerous condition on a property that caused the fall. If you fell because the property was in a dangerous condition and the owner of the property was negligent in causing the defective condition, such as unworkmanlike construction or the owner was negligent in maintaining the property, then you may have a lawsuit.
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One of the most frequent questions that our NYC sidewalk accident lawyers are asked is "Does the City own the Sidewalk" or "Who owns the sidewalk in New York City". In New York City, the responsibility to maintain the sidewalk doesn't always turn on who owns the sidewalk. Property owners in New York have a responsibility to exercise reasonable care and maintain their premises in a safe condition. They are required to remove any hazards or warn customers or other guests regarding known risks. If a property owner violates this duty, the individual or entity may be held financially responsible for any harm that results. Most commercial buildings in Manhattan have property lines that extend to the street, so the property owners are usually responsible for the sidewalk in front of their property. If you were injured on an area of the sidewalk, that is not in front of a building or store, then the City of New York is responsible.
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In this video, our slip and fall lawyer explains why it's important to have an attorney if you've been injured due to property owner negligence, and how the Law Office of Michael H. Joseph, PLLC can help you. Slip and fall accidents can have serious repercussions. When negligence is to blame, victims deserve restitution.
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Our experienced New York personal injury lawyers know how to prove who was at fault for a dangerous condition that caused your slip, trip and fall accident. We work with engineers to prove dangerous stair cases and use the latest technology to prove dangerous sidewalk cases. Our attorneys also work with meteorologists to prove that ice and snow were there long enough to be cleaned up.
Our Westchester slip and fall accident lawyers have represented personal injury victims for over two decades from our White Plains office. Our New York City trip and fall injury lawyers represent people from all over Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn from our Midtown Manhattan office.
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Our New York personal injury attorneys hold landlords who don't maintain their property accountable. If you paid your rent and got hurt because your slum lord didn't care enough to provide you with a safe place to live, call our Westchester and NYC tenant injury attorneys.
CAN I SUE FOR MY INJURIES
One of the most common questions our New York slip, trip an fall attorneys hear is "I got hurt and it was my Landlord's fault, can I sue". If you got hurt because your landlord created a dangerous condition or was careless or negligent, they can be sued for causing your personal injury.
If you were injured because of a dangerous condition on a property, the answer is probably. Tenants pay good money to live in their apartment and deserve to have a reasonably safe premises. When landlords ignore safety standards, fail to properly maintain their property or allow contractors to do unworkmanlike work, which causes a dangerous condition, the tenant has a right to seek compensation for their injury. New York law recognizes that careless landlords are responsible to compensate their tenants who sustain personal injuries because the property is dangerous.
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Landlords have a responsibility to provide reasonably safe premises for their tenants and property guests. Unfortunately, property owners who seek to save money may allow a building to fall into a dangerous state of disrepair. For more than two decades, the New York City personal injury lawyers at the Law Office of Michael H. Joseph, PLLC have represented individuals who were injured by a hazardous condition where they live. Our experienced Westchester personal injury attorneys proudly helps tenants throughout New York take legal action as a result of a landlord’s failure to adhere to city or state laws. When a property owner takes inadequate care in maintaining or repairing a building, he or she can be sued and may be held financially responsible for any injury that results. In other words slum lords are responsible to compensate their tenants for personal injuries because they didn't maintain the building. In many cases, a landlord who seeks to cut costs allow dangerous conditions on their property and ignore codes that are intended to keep their tenants safe. Tenants may also be harmed by broken walkways, black ice, defective drainage which allows water to pool and freeze or they may permit trip hazards such as wires to run across a walkway and other dangerous property conditions.
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Someone who was injured as a result of a property owner’s careless actions may be entitled to pursue compensation for his or her medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and more. A tenant may also be eligible to recover for any personal property damage caused by the landlord’s negligence.
In order to succeed in this type of case, a victim must show that the landlord was negligent (careless) and that they created a dangerous condition or failed to fix it when they knew or should have known about it. In some cases, merely failing to comply with a legal safety requirement is enough to hold the landlord financially responsible for your injury.
For over two decades our New York personal injury lawyers have represented tenants to got hurt because of dangerous conditions on property.
Our New York accident injuries have won countless cases against landlords and property owners who did not clean the ice or snow surrounding their property. In New York, property owners must keep the entrances and exits to their property and the sidewalk surrounding their property in a reasonably safe condition. Normally, when they have had an opportunity to clean their property of snow or ice and failed to do so, they can be held responsible for a personal injury caused by the snow or ice.
Most of us don’t think about it, but our ability to walk or stand depends on the amount of traction between our shoes and the walking surface. Many slip and trips fall accidents are caused because of snow, ice, slippery conditions, poor and unstable walking surfaces, cracked sidewalks or defective stairs. Property owners are often at fault for slip and fall or trip and fall accidents, which have caused accident victims serious personal injuries.
New York City and most Westchester cities and towns such as White Plains, Yonkers and New Rochelle require commercial property owners to remove the snow and ice, within a certain period of time after a snow storm is over. When property owners are careless and do not remove the snow and ice, or they do it in a careless manner that allows black ice to form, they can be sued.
Our New York personal injury attorneys have also successfully proved that property owners were negligent and were responsible for ice formation. Whenever property owners have defective gutters or drainage pipes that allow water to flow over the sidewalk, the property owner is creating a dangerous condition and they are at fault. What happens is the rain or snow falls onto the roof, melts, and the drainage pushes the water across the sidewalk. Then when the temperature drops, the water freezes up and results in black ice. Black ice is especially dangerous because it is not easily seen and presents a dangerous trap.
Most of us don’t think about it, but our ability to walk or stand depends on the amount of traction between our shoes and the walking surface. Many slip and trips fall accidents are caused because of snow, ice, slippery conditions, poor and unstable walking surfaces, cracked sidewalks or defective stairs. Property owners are often at fault for slip and fall or trip and fall accidents, which have caused accident victims serious personal injuries.
New York City and most Westchester cities and towns such as White Plains, Yonkers and New Rochelle require commercial property owners to remove the snow and ice, within a certain period of time after a snow storm is over. When property owners are careless and do not remove the snow and ice, or they do it in a careless manner that allows black ice to form, they can be sued.
Our New York personal injury attorneys have also successfully proved that property owners were negligent and were responsible for ice formation. Whenever property owners have defective gutters or drainage pipes that allow water to flow over the sidewalk, the property owner is creating a dangerous condition and they are at fault. What happens is the rain or snow falls onto the roof, melts, and the drainage pushes the water across the sidewalk. Then when the temperature drops, the water freezes up and results in black ice. Black ice is especially dangerous because it is not easily seen and presents a dangerous trap.
If you were injured because you tripped on a broken sidewalk in New York City (including the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn), you need to file a notice of claim within 90 days. The City of New York passed laws that make it harder to bring lawsuits personal injuries caused by broken sidewalks. Normally, you need to prove that the town either had actual written notice of the defect or caused it to be broken to win your case. If you cannot prove either prior written notice or that the municipality caused the defect, you will loose your case. Although this is not always as difficult as it sounds. For example in New York City, there is a 311 number where New Yorkers call in and complain about everything, including the broken sidewalk. Also a lot of City departments do regular surveys that document that photograph the City sidewalk. Our New York City broken sidewalk accident lawyers have become experts at fighting the City to get these records. Our NYC sidewalk accident attorneys through hard work frequently uncover evidence that the City tries to hide, which exposes that the City was negligent in failing to fix the sidewalk.
Our New York personal injury lawyers are experts at proving that the City caused the sidewalk or street to become broken. Often defective sidewalks or streets are caused by poor paving or sealing. This occurs when the sidewalk or street is opened and improperly closed which results in the sidewalk or street becoming broken. When a New York personal injury lawyer can prove that the City of New York or another town actually caused the broken sidewalk, you do not need to prove that they had prior written notice of the sidewalk or street.
To sue the City for your personal injury from a broken sidewalk, call our NYC sidewalk accident lawyers.
Our New York personal injury lawyers are experts at proving that the City caused the sidewalk or street to become broken. Often defective sidewalks or streets are caused by poor paving or sealing. This occurs when the sidewalk or street is opened and improperly closed which results in the sidewalk or street becoming broken. When a New York personal injury lawyer can prove that the City of New York or another town actually caused the broken sidewalk, you do not need to prove that they had prior written notice of the sidewalk or street.
To sue the City for your personal injury from a broken sidewalk, call our NYC sidewalk accident lawyers.
If you had a trip and fall on a broken sidewalk, outside of a commercial property, such as an apartment building or store, then you can sue the property owner and you do not need to file a notice of claim. Our NYC Sidewalk accident lawyers know that New York's Administrative Code places the responsibility to fix broken sidewalks on the property owner. In other words, property owners are responsible to maintain, fix and repair the sidewalks that run in front of and along side of their property in New York City.
If you fell in front of a store, apartment building or office building in New York City because of a broken sidewalk, the property owner is legally responsible. Our New York City broken sidewalk accident lawyers have successfully handled countless cases against negligent landlords and use technology to prove the case. Now google street views allows you to see what a property looked like over time and this allows our New York City personal injury lawyers to prove that the defect was present for a long time and the landlord had to know the sidewalk was broken and chose to look the other way.
To prove a case that the landowner is responsible for your accident, you still have to prove that they either knew about the dangerous condition or should have known about the dangerous condition. The legal name for this concept is notice. Our Manhattan trip and fall injury lawyers use technology to prove trip and fall cases and often research google maps and go back in time to prove how long the defect was present. This new technology allows our slip, trip and fall lawyers to prove that a dangerous hole or broken concrete was there for months, if not years and the landowner did nothing.
If you fell in front of a store, apartment building or office building in New York City because of a broken sidewalk, the property owner is legally responsible. Our New York City broken sidewalk accident lawyers have successfully handled countless cases against negligent landlords and use technology to prove the case. Now google street views allows you to see what a property looked like over time and this allows our New York City personal injury lawyers to prove that the defect was present for a long time and the landlord had to know the sidewalk was broken and chose to look the other way.
To prove a case that the landowner is responsible for your accident, you still have to prove that they either knew about the dangerous condition or should have known about the dangerous condition. The legal name for this concept is notice. Our Manhattan trip and fall injury lawyers use technology to prove trip and fall cases and often research google maps and go back in time to prove how long the defect was present. This new technology allows our slip, trip and fall lawyers to prove that a dangerous hole or broken concrete was there for months, if not years and the landowner did nothing.
Our New York Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers have won numerous verdicts and settlements for victims of slip and fall or trip and fall accidents. Landlords often allow their property to become in a state of disrepair which poses hazards to people who walk on the stairs. Stairs can be defective because the nosings are worn or absent, the stairs are too short or have poor step geometry. Stairs can also be dangerous because of poor lighting, absent or defective rails, the steps are too deep or the stair is too short or there are substances on the stairs.
Our New York accident attorneys often work with engineers to document unsafe stairs that violate either the New York City building code, local codes and industry standards. For example, many building codes, including the New York City codes, have minimum lighting standards which are measured in foot candles, and that the stairs be at least four inches high and not more than seven and a half inches high. These codes also require that all stairways have handrails and that the handrails have to be at a certain height and be present for the entire length of the stairway.
In certain situations, a landlord may also be held responsible for Negligence Per Se, or Negligence as a matter of law, Negligence as a matter of law occurs when a statute or ordinance specifically prohibits or requires certain conduct for safety reasons and the landlord fails to comply with the law. Proving this cause of action may be more straightforward than demonstrating fault in a standard negligence case.
Under the negligence per se theory of liability, you would need to demonstrate the landlord violated a law that was designed to protect tenants like you from the type of harm that you suffered, and that you were hurt because of the violation. Common examples include New York law that requires that stairs have a certain minimum and maximum height so that the stairs are not too deep or too shallow. Also the stairs must have a certain length so that the average person's foot can remain on the stairs without slipping off. Another statute that often can be used to establish that the landlord was negligent per se is the requirement that all stairs have handrails, so that if you loose your balance, you have something to break your fall and prevent a more serious injury.
In New York City, the building code has standards which the stairs must comply with. Also in New York, the multiple dwelling law applies to apartment houses and the violation of its provisions can create strict liability against the landlord for a fall that results from a missing hand rails on a stairway. If you have sustained a serious personal injury in a New York stairway, your slip or trip and fall may have been caused by the carelessness of the property owner. Our New York accident lawyers can document and prove that your accident and personal injuries were not your fault.
Numerous accidents in New York are caused by improperly installed drainage grates and covers. These accidents are notorious for causing serious ankle fractures, often requiring surgery. They typically occur when a drainage grate moves when someone steps on it and the grate or cover moves. Then the ankle will get caught in the drain and the body will rotate, thereby causing the ankle to break.
Landowners have a requirement to make sure that these grates and covers are properly installed so that they are flush with the surrounding pavement, so as to not create a trip hazard. Likewise, the New York City building code has strict standards on the amount of weight that the grates and covers must support without moving. A violation of these provisions are sufficient to establish that the property owner was at fault for your accident.
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