Individuals who are caused to slip, trip and fall as a result of another’s neglect can suffer serious injuries or even death. Property owners who cause injury to others may be liable if the property owner or tenant failed to maintain the property according to an appropriate standard of care. There are many ways that property owners or persons or companies working on property can carelessly cause injury to others. The Schulman Law Group’s slip and fall accident lawyers once determined that a general contractor on a construction site at a Miami-Dade County, Florida energy plant altered construction plans from the original building plans submitted to the applicable Building Department. As a result, our client's husband was horrifically killed (by his own employer). Our firm obtained the assistance from an extraordinary expert who was involved in saving lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As a result, the Schulman Law Group was able to recover millions of dollars for damages for our client.

In the more common cases, it may seem improbable to the more fortunate who aren’t victims of an injury fall, but a fall injury can produce the most devastating injuries an accident victim can suffer. As a result, Florida’s Civil Laws have placed great attention at attempting to protect us at the risk of careless property owners or managers who may neglect their grounds at the risk of a pedestrian’s slipping, tripping or falling. Many Florida counties and cities; including the counties of Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Monroe as well as Okeechobee Counties have very specific building codes so as to avoid the risk of injury to persons coming upon someone’s property.

The construction of the ground we walk over must anticipate a certain degree or coefficiency of friction so as to prevent or avoid slipping accidents. Stairs or steps running in a continual pattern must be of identical height and length - if one step is longer or wider than another a disastrous misstep could occur resulting in an ankle, bimaleolar, or trimalleolar fractures, hip fractures, spinal column injuries, or even death.

The Schulman Law Group is particularly committed to working the difficult slip, trip and fall cases on behalf of its clients and awaits your contact if we can be of assistance to you or someone you care for who has been injured as a result of a slip and fall injury. For further discussion please feel free to phone toll free at (877) 529-0444 or contact us at info@schulaw.com.