Slip & Fall
Slip & Fall
At the Law Offices of Jose R. Fernandez, P.A., we are ready and equipped to handle your slip and fall accident. Slip-and-fall accidents cause injury and death to hundreds of residents each year; adults 65 years of age and older are particularly at risk.
According to the Florida Department of Health (DOH), falls are the leading cause of injury-related death for Florida seniors and the second leading cause of injury-related death for Florida residents.
Falls are also the leading cause of nonfatal injury-related hospital admissions. Over the course of a year, 2,700 Floridians died from an unintentional fall and there were 67,800 hospitalizations for fall-related injuries. One statistic over a period reports 494 deaths from falls and 23,200 hospitalizations for nonfatal fall injuries.
What you need to know about the terms "slip," "trip" and "fall" is that they relate to situations where an individual suffers some personal injury on the property or premises of another individual, company or business.
Health care costs as a result of preventable falls among seniors alone are $30 billion each year. This does not take into account the multiple costs associated with these accidents.
A slip and fall accident can occur anywhere an individual is walking, jogging or running. This could be in department stores, supermarkets, condominiums, city sidewalks, a pharmacy parking lot, or while walking down stairs in a shopping mall.
Steps, stairs and ramps are virtually everywhere and many do not have the strips required by code.
Locations where you may suffer a slip and fall accident may include commercial spaces such as:
- Restaurants
- Shopping malls
- Hotels
- Amusement parks
- Supermarkets
- Apartment buildings
- Cinemas
- Gas stations
- Sports clubs
- Bars
- Banks
- Train stations
