Practice Areas
Premises Liability
The Crenshaw Law Firm helps serious personal injury victims and their families throughout the South Florida area obtain justice on their premises liability claims.
What Is Premises Liability?
When someone is hurt in Florida because property has not been properly kept up, or there is some kind of defective design, then those who are responsible for that property may be liable for that harm under Florida law. For example, that could be a property owner, as well as a landlord, an apartment manager, a cleaning service, a maintenance crew, or a security service.
Laws dealing with injuries on someone else’s property are collected together in the statutes and labeled “premises liability,” but they involve many very different situations. Premises liability claims include:
injuries from failing to provide security, or providing inadequate or improper security
(someone is hurt in an assault, rape, robbery, mugging, or other attack)
slip and fall injuries
(someone is injured because of wet, icy, uneven, poorly lit, or otherwise unsafe surfaces)
injuries from falling merchandise
(someone is hurt by a falling object or product)
injuries from unsafe elevators or escalators
(someone has injuries resulting from an accident in an elevator or on an escalator, or moving sidewalk)
These kinds of injuries can happen anywhere, at any time: in the grocery store, at the amusement park, at a parking lot, in a garage, at the grocery store, in a shopping mall, at church, in a hotel, at the airport, at school, at the theatre, at a club, in a gym or spa, or even in someone’s home.
The Legal Right to a Safe Environment: When Premises Liability Tag-Teams with Criminal Law
In the state of Florida, you have a legal right to a safe environment. Your employer is legally required to keep you safe, and so are stores wanting your business as their customer; hotels and resorts wanting you as a guest; restaurants wanting you as a diner; and so on.
All businesses operating in our state are legally required to provide security for both actual and potential customers as well as their employees. If they fail to do so, or if they try but do an inadequate job of it and you are harmed and injured during any type of criminal activity, then they are responsible for paying you money damages. These crimes can involve robbery, armed robbery, rape, assault, and other serious criminal acts.
And, while the State of Florida may seek your help in providing witness testimony in any criminal proceeding that relates to this event, the State is not responsible for helping you obtain the legal remedies available to you under Florida personal injury law. For that, you need to pursue a civil premises liability claim in a civil lawsuit.
The Crenshaw Law Firm Represents Premises Liability Injury Victims and Their Families
Regardless of where you were injured or the extent of your injuries, the Crenshaw Law Firm is ready to help you obtain the legal money damages that are available to you under Florida premises liability law. Claims can be pursued against a number of defendants: in many cases, property owners may share responsibility with security companies, etc. and it is important to make sure that compensation is required from all those who are legally liable.
If you or a loved one may have a Florida premises liability claim, please feel free to schedule a free initial legal consultation with Crenshaw Law Firm at your convenience at (305)759-0277.
