Personal Injury Attorney in South Pasadena, CA
Property owners owe you a reasonably safe space. When they cut corners and you get hurt, proving it takes fast, careful work.
Property owners owe visitors a reasonably safe space. The heart of a premises claim is notice: whether the owner knew, or should have known, about the danger and failed to fix it or warn you. I dig into inspection routines, prior complaints, and how long the hazard existed to establish it.
That evidence disappears quickly. Spills get mopped, hazards get repaired, and surveillance footage gets recorded over within days, so I act immediately to preserve it.
Slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall claims can arise almost anywhere, each with its own proof, so I tailor the investigation to your case. Common examples include:
Insurers love to blame the victim for not watching where they were going, using California's comparative-fault rule to chip away at your recovery. I build the record, video, incident reports, witnesses, and the condition itself, that counters those arguments and puts responsibility where it belongs.
California generally gives you two years from the date of the fall to file a Personal Injury lawsuit, and a shorter six-month deadline can apply when a government entity, such as a city or public agency, owns the property. Because evidence vanishes fast, the sooner you call, the stronger your claim.
California law lets you recover economic damages, your concrete financial losses, and non-economic damages, the human costs that are harder to measure. I make sure every category that applies to your case is counted.