Slip & fall accidents can happen anywhere
– from airports to hotels, from restaurants
to shopping centers. Increasingly, these
accidents happen at South Florida's
"big
box" warehouse-style stores, including
Wal-Mart,
Lowe's and
Home Depot.
Rosen & Rosen has successfully taken on
the big box stores for negligent behavior.
Ronald and
Evan Rosen successfully tried a
case against Wal-Mart in which the jury
returned a verdict in excess of $1.3
million, the seventh largest verdict in
Broward County for that year. The firm
has also obtained a verdict against
Bloomingdale’s in a trip and fall case. For
more information about these cases and the
verdicts, please review our
Cases page.
In the Wal-mart case, a 30-year old woman slipped
on body shampoo that had been spilled on the
tile floor and fell backwards, slamming her
head on a shelf and causing a severe rotary
dislocation of the top two vertebrae in her
neck. After four successful surgeries, she
has returned to being a productive citizen.
The jury concluded the store was
negligent for not cleaning up a spill and
for not keeping the store in a safe
condition. The jury awarded our client
$371,389 for past medical expenses, $148,500
for future medical expenses, $17,000 for
past lost earnings, $467,000 for past pain
and suffering, and $297,000 for future pain
and suffering.
If you've been injured in a slip and
fall, don’t get caught paying for someone
else’s negligence. Consult with an
experienced premises liability lawyer before
you speak with any insurance company
representative. Insurance firms must
minimize their costs to stay in business, so
they will offer a settlement that represents
their best interests -- not yours.
As a Rosen & Rosen client, you can count
on our slip and fall lawyers to work hard to protect your interests
and rights and to ensure that you receive
professional and aggressive representation.
We are committed to helping improve the
lives of personal injury clients and their
families by recovering the fairest
compensation possible for their injuries.
Our primary focus is serving our clients. We
believe that if we focus on providing
excellent and thorough representation and
service, everything else will take care of
itself.
Call the injury attorneys at Rosen & Rosen today at (954)
981-1852 or
contact us online. We will provide a
free consultation regarding your potential
claim. We work on a contingency fee basis,
which means we will not receive a fee unless
you receive monetary compensation.
While often times, stores improperly pack
shelving causing a spill or an employee or
store policy creates an unsafe condition, a
store not properly cleaning up property
after another patron has spilled a slippery
substance on the floor is a common
occurrence. While stores do not have the
duty to constantly monitor and maintain
their premises, they do have a duty to keep
their premises in a safe and clean manner.
This includes a duty to clean a spill or fix
an unsafe condition within a reasonable time
period after they knew or should have known
of it. As well, stores have an obligation to
follow their own maintenance protocols for
cleaning a store, should they have one in
place.
The slip and fall attorneys at Rosen & Rosen have
successfully represented many clients who
have been injured when property owners
failed to keep their premises safe. We have
helped clients obtain money for medical
care, lost wages and other damages -- and we
can help you.
To find out if you have a case, call the
personal injury lawyers of Rosen & Rosen
today at (954) 981-1852, or
contact us
online for a free consultation. We provide a
full range of
personal injury legal services to clients
throughout South Florida, including
Hollywood,
Pembroke Pines,
Aventura,
Hallandale,
North Miami Beach,
Sunny
Isles,
Cooper City, and
Dania
Beach.
Slip and Fall Accidents at “Big Box” Stores