We get a lot of calls and questions about trip-and-fall and slip-and-fall injuries. When these arrive from renters, we immediately establish whether the landlord or property owner is liable for your injury. The first thing we check is what the building codes are for the thing that caused your fall. If there is a building code violation associated with your fall, whether stairs, sidewalk, or other area, and the idea or purpose behind that building code was so that the type of injury you just sustained would not happen, you are probably going to have a good claim.
An easy example is the lippage on a sidewalk. If you have a brick of sidewalk and another brick of sidewalk and one of them is sunken down and nobody has maintained the property, you might have a good claim. It takes a while to get into that shape, or it might be a case where it was constructed poorly. ADA and OSHA want you to have less than 1/4 inch between this step and that step. They want you walking on a flat sidewalk. If it is more than that, you are going to have a good claim to say that they were not maintaining their property.
If you have any questions, call or text the slip and fall lawyers at 612-INJURED at (612) 465-8733 for a free consultation.
