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Were You Injured in a Slip
and Fall in Florida? A Collection of Helpful Articles.
Sackrin & Tolchinsky, P.A. “Good lawyers are, first and foremost, good people…”
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Do You Still Have an Injury Claim if You Wait to See a
Doctor or if You Don’t File a Timely Incident Report After
an Accident?
Here in South Florida, people get hurt in all sorts of ways.
Car crashes, slip and falls, sporting accidents, injuries on a
JetSki or at the water-park, maybe even falling down the
stairs at a shopping mall.
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Pain and Suffering Claims Now and In The Future – Do You
Have a Case for Pain and Suffering Damages?
No matter how you have been injured — a slip and fall; a
car crash; an on the job accident; a defective product; etc.
— the reality is most every person who is hurt and injured
will experience pain, sometimes severe pain, as well as
physical and mental suffering from the moment of injury
through their long-term recovery and a return to a full and
happy life.
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I Slipped and Fell at the Store But There Was a Wet Floor
Sign: Do I Have a Case? In Florida, Maybe.
There are permanent hazards (like dangerous stairways,
etc.) where store owners and other property owners, as well,
are legally duty-bound to put up permanent warning signs
of the hazard.
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Ankle Injuries in a Slip and Fall Accident: What Kind of
Damages Can You Recover in a Florida Slip and Fall
Claim?
Most people take the importance of their ankle for granted,
ignore that it’s there, until something happens, like a slip
and fall, and they are injured and in serious pain and unable
to stand on their foot, or use their leg to walk or move
around.
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Do You Still Have a Claim If You are Drunk or Intoxicated
When You Slip and Fall? Florida Casino Fun or Miami
Celebration Gone Awry.
If you are high or drunk from booze or beer or shooters
when you slip and fall and suffer an injury to your foot,
ankle, knee, leg, back, neck, arm — is it all your fault
because you are intoxicated or does the property owner still
have some legal liability here? It’s a great question, and one
with no easy answer.
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Yellow Warning Tape and Your Florida Slip and Fall Injury:
Does the Tape Mean You Have No Fall Injury Claim
Against Them?
There are certain places, especially in South Florida, where
the environment itself makes an area somewhat risky to
walk across. For example, steps and stairs near a swimming
pool or on a boat dock, are likely to have water splashed
upon them periodically – people should be warned to be
careful as they walk around and through these locations.
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Hallandale Beach, Florida: Fun Place With Lots of
Attractions – and Lots of Slip and Fall Injury Risk, Too
Hallandale Beach is a great place to visit and a fabulous
place to live. However, one thing of which we are also very
aware here at our work place is that this community is also
a prime location for slip and fall injuries. Gulfstream Park,
Mardi Gras Casino, Shopping Malls, Restaurants: All Prime
Locations for a Fall Injury.
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What Type of Legal Duty Does a Florida Property Owner
Have For Injuries To Visitors?: Florida Premises
Liability’s Invitee, Licensee, Trespasser Distinctions
In Florida, the body of statutory law and court cases, which
creates legal liability for a property owner because of duties
the property owners owes to certain persons who have been
hurt in an accident with serious injury or even death, is
known as Florida’s Premises Liability law.
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Proving a Florida Slip and Fall Injury Claim: What Does The Person Hurt in a Fall Have to do to Prove Owner Knew
of Danger That Someone Could Slip and Fall and
Didn’t Fix It?
In Florida, the law established both by the Florida legislature as well as Florida case precedent (opinions by the courts) allows people who have been seriously injured from falling after slipping or tripping on floors, sidewalks, stairs, ramps, or other places at a store, restaurant, hotel,
bar, pool, spa, resort, or other business or work place, to file a claim for monetary help.
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Child Sports Injuries: Falling on the Playing Field and The Dangers of Serious Head Injuries (Concussions) in Kids
Under 18 Years Old – Football Isn’t The Only Dangerous Sport
The coverage given to recent lawsuits filed against the National Football League, regarding permanent injuries
from concussions sustained by football players which have led to lifetime disabilities or death, have increased public
awareness of the dangers of playing football and head injuries. Because of this increased media coverage, parents and
coaches are now paying closer attention to the risks of head injuries to children caused not only from playing football, but
from other sports as well.
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Slip and Fall Injuries at Work: What are the Most
Common Injuries From Falls on the Job?
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOSH), each year in the United States on the
job worker occupational injuries and illnesses cost at least
$250 billion. On the job injuries cost Americans more than
the total costs of cancer (all kinds of cancer) as well as the
total cost of diabetes treatment or the expense of care and
rehabilitation from strokes.
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Hurt at a Florida Theme Park? Did You Slip and Fall at
Disney or Another Florida Amusement Park? Florida
Premises Liability Law Controls Your Claim
Most slip and fall injuries are minor: a child slips near the
water slide and suffers a bloodied knee or a stubbed toe, for
example. However, theme park slip and falls can result in
serious and severe injuries for amusement park visitors,
including spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries
where there may be lifelong complications.
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Florida Hotel Slip and Falls: What is the Victim’s Evidence
Burden When Falling at Hotel and Trying to Recover
Compensation?
Florida hotel guests and resort visitors who slip and fall
during their stay must spend more time and expense in
proving up their claims in order to win their case and obtain
monetary damages from the establishment whose actions
(or inactions) caused them to be hurt.
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Hurt While Food Shopping in Florida: What are the
Evidence Requirements to Prove Your Slip and Fall Injury
Claim Against The Grocery Store or Supermarket?
Here in Florida, just like other parts of the country, grocery
stores and supermarkets are notorious for slippery floors
and unkempt aisles, where customers pushing shopping
carts, taking products off shelves, or testing produce lose
their footing and fall on hard grocery store floors, in a slip
and fall injury.
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