Arizona Slip and Fall Lawyer

If you suffered an injury after a slip and fall accident, you deserve to have a law firm on your side that understands what you are going through. You need an Arizona slip and fall lawyer who can aggressively fight store owners, landlords, and management whose negligence put you in harm’s way. Unfortunately, large companies, stores, and restaurants have legal teams and insurance companies on their side whose only goal is to reduce their client’s liability. To accomplish this, they will try to pin some of the blame on you. They might claim you weren’t watching where you were going or that your footwear resulted in your fall. 

To fight these entities, you need to call an experienced Arizona slip and fall accident lawyer you can trust. You need Ciccarelli Law Offices. 

Understanding Slip and Fall Accidents

According to NSFI, more women than men will experience a slip-and-fall accident, although fewer women will die from workplace-related slip-and-falls. Slip and falls account for more than one million visits to the ER and 12 percent of total falls. 

Slip and fall accidents are most likely to cause fractures, often severe fractures that take a long time to heal and can cause long-term pain. The elderly are more likely to have serious side effects as a result of a slip-and-fall than younger individuals, but serious injuries are possible with any slip-and-fall accident.  Floors and flooring materials contribute directly to more than 2 million falls each year, usually from broken tiles or torn carpeting.  

Slip and fall accidents turn into personal injury claims when the victim fell as a result of danger or hazard on another’s property that was known—or should have been known—by the owner of the property. Slip and fall claims are specifically in the category of premises liability claims, and to win a premises’ liability claim it must be shown that you were legally on the property and that the property owner acted carelessly or negligently, resulting in the accident. To show the owner is responsible for slip-and-fall injuries, it must be shown that:

• The owner of the property knew the hazardous or dangerous condition existed, yet failed to correct the condition, or
• The condition existed for such a length of time that the owner of the property should have discovered and corrected it before your slip-and-fall accident.

Why Should You Choose the Arizona Slip and Fall Accident Lawyers from Ciccarelli Law Offices?

Having a strong legal advocate in your corner makes everything associated with your slip-and-fall accident easier to deal with. The attorneys at Ciccarelli Law Offices want you to be able to spend your time getting the medical treatments you need and putting your life back together without worrying about money and how you will pay for the medical treatments you need.  This is a time when you should not have to worry about your finances, rather you should be able to heal from your injuries and get your life back on track. 

If you were unable to return to work after your slip and fall accident, we will help you get the lost wages you are entitled to, as well as any pain and suffering damages. Our highly experienced attorneys will fight for you every step of the way. We will ensure you receive an equitable settlement from the insurance company because we always have your best interests at heart. 

Each decision we make on your behalf is made after carefully considering the alternative, always with your future in mind. We have helped many people who were in the same type of situation you are in. We understand that you have many choices for your Arizona slip and fall attorney. We hope you will give us a chance by meeting with one of our attorneys, who will answer your questions while explaining the process for your slip and fall accident claim. We have many five-star reviews and attorney Lee Ciccarelli has been recognized as:

• Super Lawyer 
• Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association
• Having the highest rating (10.0) by AVVO 
• One of the Top 100 Litigation Attorneys by the American Society of Legal Advocates.

If you want a lawyer who truly cares about your future, contact Ciccarelli Law Offices today.  

What Are the Most Common Injuries Following an Arizona Slip and Fall Accident? 

Slip and fall accidents typically cause broken bones, sprains and strains, cuts and scrapes, and bumps and bruises. Slip and fall accidents can also be responsible for more serious injuries, including back and neck injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and spinal cord injuries. Those who suffer traumatic brain injuries or spinal cord injuries will likely face a lifetime of medical treatments and may also need a caretaker and assistive devices to handle day-to-day living. 

Traumatic brain injuries can result in cognitive problems that affect memory, learning, reasoning, judgment, concentration, and attention span. A person with a traumatic brain injury may have difficulty multitasking, solving problems, and completing tasks, as well as difficulty understanding speech, speaking, writing, or participating in conversations. Social skills can also be affected by TBI, causing problems for the victim as well as for his or her family.

Even the less serious injuries from a slip and fall accident can cause long-term symptoms. Neck and back injuries can cause pain, headaches, and mobility issues for many months, just as broken bones can cause pain and mobility issues. Even a “simple” concussion can result in chronic headaches, the inability to tolerate light or noise, constantly feeling sluggish or groggy, difficulty concentrating, memory problems, insomnia, or simply not feeling “right” or “like yourself.” 

What Compensation is Available Following an Arizona Slip and Fall Accident?

Your exact compensation for your slip-and-fall accident will depend on several factors, including the extent of your injuries, how long those injuries can be expected to alter your life or keep you from working, whether liability is clear, and whether the at-fault party has insurance. Your compensation will usually include reimbursement for medical expenses as well as compensation for future medical expenses if your injuries are expected to require medical treatment for a significant period of time. 

You are entitled to lost wages if you were unable to work for a week, a month, or longer due to your injuries. If you will be unable to work for a long time in the future, you will be entitled to receive future lost wages as well. It requires a highly experienced personal injury attorney to accurately calculate your future medical expenses and future lost wages. If those items are incorrectly calculated, you could end up unable to pay your necessary medical expense and unable to pay your regular monthly bills. 

Lost wages and medical expenses are considered special damages because a specific monetary figure can be placed on both. General damages are things like pain and suffering that are less easy to quantify. Your physical or emotional pain is very subjective in that you know how bad the pain is, but it may not be apparent to others. General damages are usually calculated by taking the total amount of special damages, then using a multiplier between 1.5 and 5 (depending on the severity of your injuries and the length of time your doctors think it will take you to heal) to determine general damages. 

What Are the Most Common Causes of Slip and Fall Accidents? 

Slip and fall accidents have many causes. These accidents can occur in grocery stores, restaurants, nightclubs, retail stores, malls, swimming pools, amusement parks, parking lots, motels or hotels, stairwells, escalators, and many more places. They can be caused by loose carpeting, broken tiles, broken handrails, broken or missing steps, cracked sidewalks, parking lots with potholes, spilled substances that make the floor slippery, items in the walkway, or cords stretched across walking areas. 

When a slip and fall accident is the result of a hazard that the owner of the property knew about—or should have known about—then the owner is responsible for the resulting injuries. Visitors are classified in three different ways. Invitees are those who are expressly invited onto a property by the owner, including customers, friends, or family members. 

When you buy groceries or go to a restaurant, you have been implicitly invited to the property. If you are a private landowner, friends and family members who come to your home are invitees as well. Licensees are those who have implicit permission to remain on the premises, such as a salesperson. Trespassers have no right to enter a property. Property owners owe the highest duty of care to invitees, followed by licensees. There is no duty of care owed to trespassers.  

What Should You Do Immediately Following Your Slip and Fall Accident?

Following your slip and fall accident, you should immediately call 911 and get medical attention for your injuries. If you are medically able, you should do the following:

• Take photographs at the scene of the accident
• Obtain contact information from witnesses

Once you are home:

• Start a file with medical receipts
• Write down anything you can remember about the slip and fall accident
• Contact an experienced slip and fall accident attorney from Ciccarelli Law Offices

The sooner you have an attorney from Ciccarelli Law Offices on board, the better outcome you will have for your slip and fall accident. Your attorney will thoroughly investigate your accident, talk to witnesses, and will have a thorough understanding of how you were injured so he or she can begin proving liability. Your attorney can help you get the medical attention you need, as well as the compensation you deserve. 

Call Our Arizona Slip and Fall Accident Lawyers Today

If you suffered an injury in a slip and fall accident in Phoenix, Chandler, Tempe, or anywhere in the state of Arizona, you face a difficult road ahead. When you suffer an injury on another person’s property, you might find that insurance companies are quick to push the blame on you. That’s where we come in. 

At Ciccarelli Law Offices, our Arizona slip and fall accident lawyers have the experience and resources you need to investigate, litigate, and win complex slip and fall accident cases. We can go head-to-head against any insurance company, and we will fight aggressively for you. 

Let Attorneys Lee Ciccarelli and his team help you through this difficult time in your life. Call us today to begin fighting for justice after a serious slip and fall accident.