Even if you feel okay, get evaluated. Hip fractures, spinal injuries, and traumatic brain injuries from falls can have delayed symptoms. A same-day medical record creates the link between the fall and your injuries — essential for your claim.
Photograph the exact spot where you fell — the wet floor, broken step, icy walkway, or poor lighting — immediately. Property owners often fix hazards within hours to avoid liability. Your phone photos may be the only proof the condition existed.
Notify the property owner, store manager, or landlord and request a written incident report. Keep a copy. Get the names and contact information of any witnesses before they leave the scene.
The property owner’s insurance company will contact you quickly. Do not give a recorded statement or accept any offer without speaking to a premises liability attorney first. Early statements are frequently used to deny or minimize valid claims.
Slip and fall cases require rapid legal action to preserve surveillance footage, secure witness statements, and document conditions before they change. PAIN 100 connects you with a PA premises liability attorney and injury doctor in minutes — 24/7.
Spills, recently mopped floors without warning signs, leaking refrigeration units. Retailers and restaurants are frequently liable for wet floor injuries when they fail to warn.
Broken sidewalks, raised pavement, torn carpeting, and damaged flooring. Municipalities and property owners share responsibility for maintaining safe walkways.
Broken handrails, missing steps, inadequate tread depth, and poor stairway lighting. Falls on stairs cause some of the most serious injuries in slip and fall cases.
Dark parking lots, unlit stairwells, and poorly illuminated common areas. Owners who fail to provide adequate lighting can be held liable for falls that result.
Pennsylvania property owners have a duty to address snow and ice accumulation in a reasonable time. Icy parking lots, unsalted walkways, and uncleared steps are among the most common PA winter slip and fall claims.
Businesses that invite customers onto their property carry the highest duty of care. Falls in grocery stores, restaurants, shopping malls, and hotels are frequently actionable under Pennsylvania premises liability law.
Medical expenses, lost wages, future care costs, pain and suffering, and loss of enjoyment of life — Pennsylvania law allows full recovery for all damages caused by a negligent property owner’s failure to maintain safe conditions.
Homeowners, commercial property owners, retailers, and landlords all carry premises liability insurance. Your attorney can pursue this policy for the full value of your claim without you paying anything out of pocket.
Your attorney can subpoena security camera footage, prior incident reports, and property maintenance logs — evidence that can prove the owner knew about the hazard and failed to fix it.
Even if you were partially responsible for the fall, Pennsylvania’s modified comparative fault rule allows you to recover compensation as long as you were less than 51% at fault. Your recovery is reduced by your percentage of responsibility.
You have 2 years from the date of your fall to file a personal injury claim in Pennsylvania. Missing this deadline permanently bars recovery. But evidence — especially surveillance footage — disappears far sooner. Act now.
PAIN 100-connected premises liability attorneys work on pure contingency. They only get paid when you win. No retainer, no hourly fees, no upfront cost of any kind.
