Slip and Fall Accidents

Slip and Falls

Slip and fall accidents are one of the more common personal injury accidents in New York.  These accidents usually happen at a moment's notice and can cause minor to catastrophic injuries to innocent victims, from broken bones to brain trauma and everything in between.  The fall may be precipitated by a wet floor, a slippery floor or a sidewalk or roadway that is covered by unplowed snow or ice.  For more information call or email the experienced slip and fall accident attorneys of Zuniga & Rinaldi LLP at 877-737-8539 or [email protected]  

Wet, Slippery Floors

We all walk through malls, supermarkets, restaurants and more, and we usually don't anticipate that the floors in those places will be wet or slippery.  However, sometimes they are.  For example, a soup may have been spilled in a restaurant by a waiter, or a drink may have spilled in a mall food court area or an aisle in a supermarket may have just been mopped by staff - all these present potentially dangerous conditions to the unsuspecting public.  Sometimes an accident is caused when a floor is cleaned or waxed with a slippery substance when there is no spill per se.  It is incumbent on property owners to ensure their properties are in a reasonably safe condition for its guests.  This usually means that the property owner is require to quickly clean up spills, or clean with substances that won't create dangerous slippery conditions or to put up a warning sign alerting passerbys to dangerous conditions.  For more information call or email the experienced slip and fall accident attorneys of Zuniga & Rinaldi LLP at 877-737-8539 or [email protected]  

Snow & Ice

Thousands of individuals are injured every year after slipping and falling on unplowed or under-plowed or unsalted sidewalks and roadways.  The property owner may have decided to use an inexpensive or inexperience snow removal company or failed to hire anyone at all to remove snow and ice. Once a winter storm is over, a property  owner has a duty to begin to salt, shovel, sand or plow the property to avoid easily avoidable accidents to the general public.  When snow is piled up near a sidewalk, a common condition is "black ice", which is ice that sometimes thaws out during the day but refreezes at night when the temperatures fall.  In the morning, a passerby walks and slips on the "black ice" and it is something that could have been avoided if the snow was deposited somewhere other than where pedestrians walk.  Another common occurrence is that a property owner fails to use sufficient salt and leaves patches of ice throughout a walkway.  For more information call or email the experienced slip and fall accident attorneys of Zuniga & Rinaldi LLP at 877-737-8539 or [email protected]