Ohio Slip And Fall Traps For The Unwary

by Anthony Castelli
(Cincinnati, Ohio)

Many people that fall in a store think that the store should pay them for their injury. Some think this way because the area of law is called "premises liability."

However, the term actually means that you must prove some fault (negligence) on the part of the store owner. The owner has a duty to exercise reasonable care to provide a reasonably safe premises.

The biggest trap is if you can not show what caused you to fall. And just as importantly did the store owner have notice of this dangerous condition long enough that they should have taken care of it?

Notice is shown implicitly if the store employees created the dangerous condition. But if you can not show that it was the employees you must present some evidence as to how long the object was there that caused you to fall.

The second trap for injury victims that fall in a business is that the store owner has no duty to protect you from something you should have protected yourself from. So you need to be able to state why the substance or problem that caused your fall was not immediately visible.

Clear water is a great example. Also if you just turned the corner and stepped on something that also can keep an object on the ground from being open and obvious.

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Learn more by contacting:

Anthony Castelli
Cincinnati, Ohio
www.CastelliLaw.com