Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers represents those injured in slip and fall or trip and fall accidents in Tulare, CA. If you have been injured in a slip and fall accident, we can help you recover financial compensation for your medical bills, lost wages, pain, suffering and more.
When you hire us to handle your slip and fall case, you can rest assured that we have the experience and know-how to recover the most compensation possible on your behalf. We have been handling slip and fall lawsuit cases since 1990 and have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of our clients.
A slip and fall attorney at our firm will handle your case on a contingency fee basis, which means that you won’t be charged any fee until and unless we recover financial compensation on your behalf. That means no upfront fee or no out-of-pocket fee will be charged. The only fee we’ll charge is a percentage of any money we recover to compensate you for your slip and fall injuries.
If you have suffered injuries, even serious injuries, and can’t afford to have them treated, our slip and fall lawyers can get you to doctors who can treat you without charging you any fees until your case is over. We have a long, well-established track record of success, and this track record is why doctors are willing to do this for our clients.
Call our slip and fall attorneys today for a free consultation, text us from this page or fill out this page’s free case evaluation form if you or a loved one was injured or killed in a slip or trip and fall accident in Tulare or Tulare County. You may qualify to recover financial compensation.
What Compensation Can an Experienced Tulare Slip and Fall Lawyer Help Me Recover?
If you’ve been injured after slipping or tripping and falling, a slip and fall accident lawyer at Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers can help you recover financial compensation for:
Medical Expenses
The bulk of the compensation our slip and fall accident attorneys typically recover for our clients comes in the form of compensation for medical bills. Slip and fall claims often involve clients who already owe medical bills when they come to us, and these clients sometimes also need medical treatments in the future. When we handle your personal injury claim, we can help you recover compensation for past and future medical bills.
Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers
Tulare, CA 93274
(559) 772-1212
Lost Wages
When we handle slip and fall cases, our clients are often hurt too badly to work. In addition, sometimes they need to take time off from work to get their slip and fall injuries treated. When our personal injury law firm handles your slip and fall claim, we can help you recover compensation for any wages you’re unable to earn due to your injuries.
Loss of Earning Capacity
Sometimes our clients come to us with disabilities caused by the injuries sustained in a slip and fall accident. These injuries cause them to suffer a loss or reduction of their earning capacity, and we help them recover compensation for this.
Pain and Suffering
Our personal injury attorneys are very experienced at calculating the accurate value of our clients’ physical pain and mental suffering and ensuring our clients are fairly compensated for their pain and suffering. We prove negligence on behalf of a property owner or another party in order to make sure our clients are fairly compensated for pain and suffering.
Wrongful Death
If you lost a loved one to a slip or trip and fall accident, it is unfortunate that financial compensation won’t be able to bring your loved one back. However, a personal injury lawyer at our firm can help you recover compensation that can prevent your family from going through financial hardship. We can file a wrongful death premises liability claim on your behalf, seeking compensation from an insurance company or another party for:
- The loss of your loved one’s income, household services, consortium, companionship and love
- Your loved one’s medical bills, funeral bills, burial bills, pain and suffering
- Your grieving as well as your suffering
Do I Need a Lawyer to Handle My Slip and Fall Accident Case?
If you have suffered a slip and fall injury, there is no technical requirement for you to hire slip and fall injury lawyers. However, fall victims who which to recover the maximum compensation possible from property owners’ insurance companies will need a lawyer in order to do so.
An insurance company’s priority is not providing full compensation for a fall victim’s injuries. Rather, the insurance company’s priority is to preserve their own profit margin, so they’ll do whatever it takes to minimize their payouts after slip and fall accidents.
The insurance company knows that, under California law, they’re obligated to pay an injured person up to the policy limits for any damages suffered by the victim if those damages were the result of their insured’s negligence. However, they also know that if they offer a low ball settlement offer, the only way injured accident victims can force them to pay them what they’re entitled to is to file a lawsuit over the low ball offer and win said lawsuit. The insurance company knows you can’t win such a lawsuit without slip and fall accident lawyers, so if you don’t have a lawyer, they’ll never offer you anything more than a tiny fraction of what you’re entitled to.
However, when insurance companies see that experienced lawyers are handling your personal injury case, they’ll suddenly know you mean business. They’ll know you can sue them and win, so they’ll be a lot more agreeable to the idea of paying you what you’re entitled to for your injuries. Almost every single slip and fall accident case we handle settles out of court because we have proven to insurance companies time and time again that when we go to court, we win. Insurance companies know it’s a waste of their time and money to take us on in court.
In addition, the worst thing you can do after being hurt in a slip and fall accident is to talk to the at fault party’s insurance company. Insurance companies train their adjusters to trick fall accident victims like you into saying things that imply fault for accidents or imply that injuries aren’t as severe as claimed. If an adjuster succeeds in manipulating you into saying the wrong thing, the value of your claim will plummet quickly.
Call us today for a free consultation so we can force insurance companies to pay you what you deserve for your fall injuries and protect your legal rights by handling all conversations and negotiations with insurance companies for you so you don’t have to worry about incriminating yourself and can simply focus on recovering from your injuries.
What Can Lawyers Do for Me While Handling My Slip and Fall Case?
If you’ve been injured in a fall accident, our slip and fall lawyers can assist you by:
Gathering and Presenting Evidence
It is essential that you have evidence in order to prove your fall injury claim. You possess a legal right to collect any evidence which is available for use in your injury claim, and will require support in order to navigate the process of discovery.
It can be difficult to prove liability, and you won’t have any leg you can stand on if you don’t have the right evidence. Your lawyer will make requests for evidence on your behalf in order to build a strong, convincing injury case with any necessary evidence.
Dealing with the Insurance Company
Insurance companies aren’t interested in your well-being. They’re interested in doing whatever it takes to pay you as little money as they can so they can profit. It is an insurance adjuster’s job to fight for their employer’s best interest.
Businesses and insurance companies will always attempt to avoid any liability when they are presented with slip and fall cases. Having our attorneys by your side makes sure that someone is looking out for you and your interests while staying ahead of any attempts to downplay or undermine your claims or injuries.
Proving Liability and Fault
It can be very complicated to prove liability, and you also need to be able to prove fault, meaning negligence, on a business or individual’s behalf.
You have to be able to prove another party was at fault for your fall accident. You will only be granted compensation by a court or insurance company if you have the right evidence in your case.
Making Sure You Receive Just, Fair Compensation
Proving your losses’ and injuries’ extent will provide you with every chance in order to recover fair compensation. Victims in California are given financial compensation equivalent to their losses’ value.
You may be entitled to compensation for economic and non-economic losses depending on your case’s circumstances.
Do I Qualify to File a Slip and Fall Lawsuit?
If you have been injured in a fall accident, you need to be able to understand the key factors and issues which can determine if you have a valid case and why you’ll have to hire a lawyer.
Not all accidents qualify as slip and fall claims. Accidents may happen in your home, in others’ homes, in businesses or at work. Some accidents aren’t anyone else’s fault as they’re simply due to the victim’s own errors. Multiple parties can be considered at fault in some accidents.
Slip and fall claims need to involve the negligence of another party. As an example, a property owner is negligent if they failed to maintain their premises and keep them reasonably safe, failed to place proper safety measures like signage, or didn’t fix any hazardous conditions they knew or should have known about.
Common causes of slip and fall accidents include:
- Loose or missing handrails
- Uneven surfaces
- Slippery surfaces due to spills or ice
- Uneven or broken steps
- Inadequate or dim lighting
- Bunched up or torn carpet
- Uneven floor surfaces
- Broken tiles
- Uneven parking lot surfaces
- Holes in parking lots
- Uneven or broken sidewalks
It’s challenging enough to recover emotionally and physically. Having to pay your personal and medical bills while recovering is an extra burden, and one of the primary reasons it’s essential to hire an experienced lawyer to handle your case.
What Should I Do After a Slip and Fall Accident?
- Evaluate yourself for injuries and pain. Seek medical attention as soon as possible, even if you don’t think you’re hurt, as some injuries take weeks or months to surface, and if you fail to have your injuries documented by a professional quickly enough, insurance companies can claim something other than your accident caused them. Photograph any injuries which are visible.
- Take pictures of the accident scene. Note the location and time of your fall.
- If your fall happened at a business, request a complete incident report from the manager.
- Look out for any witnesses. If anyone witnessed your accident, get their phone number and name.
- Call our lawyers for a free, no-obligation case evaluation.
Is There a Time Limit to File a Slip and Fall Claim?
For most slip and fall cases, there’s a time limit of two years from the date of the accident in order to file a lawsuit seeking compensation for your injuries. This time limit is called a statute of limitations and if you fail to meet this deadline, you could be forever barred from seeking compensation.
However, there are certain exceptions to this deadline which can either shorten or lengthen it. The most important exception to keep in mind is if a government entity is responsible for your injuries, such as if you tripped and fell on a broken or mis-leveled sidewalk maintained by a local government. In a case such as this you’d only have six months to file a claim seeking compensation for your injuries.
In addition, it’s best not to wait until just before the deadline to file a claim. Instead, call us today for a free consultation if you’ve been injured in a fall accident. Calling us today gives us the most time possible to build a strong slip and fall case on your behalf.
