Personal Injury Cases in Dallas Texas
Premises Cases
Premises cases usually occur in places called public accommodations. This simply means places to which the public is invited such as businesses of all sorts, offices, stores, theaters, hospitals, public recreational facilities, such as swimming pools, and bars, etc., but can include an apartment complex, a private location such as a private club, a home or any other physical location.
Slip and Fall
These cases usually involve sliding or slipping in some substance on the floor but can involve excavations, unprotected holes, wells or other hazards one might encounter that cause injury.
Trip and Fall
Like "slip and fall", these cases usually occur in places of public or private accommodations. The individual is injured as a result of encountering something that causes the person to "trip and fall" rather than "slip and fall" otherwise they are almost identical to "slip and fall" claims.
Over-Head Hazards
These cases occur in places open to the public like stores and shops of all kinds and cause injury that arises from something that strikes a person's head as a result of an obstruction or falling from a height that strikes the victim.
Animal Attacks
These cases usually involve a pet of some kind, dog attacks being the most common, but they include domestic animals of all sorts, birds, snakes,horses, other livestock as well as naturally wild animals kept by someone that results in injury or death to another.
Electrocutions
These cases are self-evident. They most often occur to workmen involved with installation or repair of electrical wiring but they can occur through unintentional contact with wiring by persons engaged in other types of activities, such as construction or roofing.
Attractive Nuisance Claims
These cases involving young children who are injured as the result of being attracted to some dangerous condition existing on the property of another which is either unprotected or such as may exist if not reasonably sufficient to meet a foreseeable child from coming into contact with the condition. The most common example is a swimming pool, but it can involve construction sites, excavations and anything else that adults may anticipate will be an attraction to a young person.
Swimming Pool Accidents
These cases may arise as an attractive nuisance if a young child sustains injury or death, but they include adults as well and asually arise from hidden or unappreciated hazards such as the suckion of a drain, shallow water level, insufficient lighting or signage and even the potential for personal assault.
Lack of Reasonable Security Claims
These cases usually involves theaters, bars, apartments, houses, parking lots, shopping centers and other places where people are subject to physical assault, rape, robbery, and shootings that result in physical injury and/or death that could have been prevented or the chances reduced had more reasonable security measures been taken by the owner/occupier of the premises in the face of foreseeable actions by 3rd persons.
