Utah Slip and Fall Guide

If you’ve been injured because of a slip and fall accident in the state of Utah, you may want to know how to hire the right attorney. You want to look at a couple of different things including experience, the focus of the practice, and you want a trial lawyer.

You want somebody who’s experienced because these cases are quite difficult. You want somebody who knows how to deal with the case, how to navigate through the case, and somebody who’s done it multiple times successfully. You want somebody who focuses on personal injury and these types of claims specifically, because it’s hard to understand the smaller parts of the case if you just dabble. If I’m doing criminal cases one day, and then trying to do adoptions the next day, and then I try to fit in your slip and fall case, that’s a difficult thing to do.

These cases are tough. We want to prepare them from the beginning as if you’re going to have to go to trial. A lot of the insurance companies for these businesses don’t want to pay anything on these cases. You want to have somebody that the insurance company knows will take the case to trial and will be ready for trial.

If you have been injured in a slip and fall in the state of Utah, it’s important that you do a number of things. First, you need to seek out medical care for any injuries that you have. You need a doctor that can tell you what your injuries are and help you understand what you need to do to heal from those injuries. Second, you need to follow the recommendations and instructions that are given to you by your doctor. An insurance company will look and see if you’ve followed the instructions, and if you didn’t, the insurance company will offer you less compensation for your case.

Third, you need to hire an attorney early in the process. An attorney can step in and help you organize your case, and help you understand how to avoid some of the common pitfalls and mistakes. Fourth, you need to make sure that you hire a trial attorney. A trial attorney is one that will actually take your case to a jury verdict, and insurance companies know which attorneys are willing to do that and which are not. When a case is run by a trial attorney, insurance companies offer more compensation for those cases.

We had a client that was involved in a slip and fall case in a restaurant. He walked into one of the entrances, took a couple of steps, his foot hit wet floor, and down he went. As we were discussing the case with the insurance company, the insurance company said, “Your client doesn’t have a case because we had a caution sign that said there was a wet floor.” When we looked into it further, we discovered that the wet floor sign was over by a separate entrance, where it would’ve been very hard to see for anybody, including our client who was walking through the other entrance.

We helped him understand that, in this case, even though there was a caution sign out, he does have a case against this restaurant.

If you have been injured in Utah due to a faulty handrail, there are a number of things we suggest that you do. First, we would recommend that you get pictures or video of the faulty handrail. Sometimes those handrails will get repaired or changed rather quickly, and it helps preserve the evidence of what the handrail was like at the moment that you were injured. We also recommend that you seek medical care for the injuries that you sustained so you can start to make a physical recovery. Third, we recommend that you hire an attorney to come in and make sure that all evidence gets preserved and that nothing gets destroyed.

Hire a trial attorney who will take your case to a jury verdict and can see if the handrail was up to code and that the owner of the handrail was doing what they needed to do under the law.

If you slipped and fell on faulty stairs in Utah, whether or not you have a case depends on a number of factors. The biggest factor is to determine whether or not the stairs that you fell on are up to code. The construction code requires that stairs meet certain dimensions and requirements. That’s why it’s important to bring an attorney into your case, so that we can help you understand whether or not there is a case against the owner of those stairs.

When someone has been injured in a slip and fall in the state of Utah, there are a number of common mistakes that are made. Mistake number one is not seeking out the medical care you need. If you have been injured, it’s important that you see a doctor right away so that you can begin to heal from the injuries you have sustained. Mistake number two is not following the recommendations of the doctor. If the doctor has suggested that you do something, it’s very important that you follow that doctor’s instructions.

Mistake number three is to not hire an attorney. An attorney can come in early on, help you organize your case, and help you avoid some of the pitfalls and common problems that we see people fall into. Mistake number four is to not hire an attorney who is a trial attorney. Insurance companies know who the trial attorneys are and who is willing to take a case to a jury verdict. Hiring an attorney who is a trial attorney can be one of the things that adds the most value to your case.

Trying to determine the value of a case, if you’ve had a slip and fall accident in the state of Utah, is tough because you’ve got to look at a couple of different things. First is the severity of the injury that you have. That includes the medical treatment that you’re going to get, that you’ve already gotten, how well it worked, and how much better you got. The other thing you need to look at in these cases is if some of it is your fault, you need to take that into account in determining the value of the case, and that makes it very difficult to do, especially early on in a case.

If you have been injured on a sidewalk that is owned and maintained by a city or municipality, whether or not you have a claim depends on a number of factors. One of the most important things to understand is the time frame that you have to bring a claim against a governmental agency is much shorter than it is against a private party. It’s important to hire an attorney and get an injury attorney involved early on in the case, so that we can make sure that the steps are followed and the hoops that you have to jump through are jumped through, so that we can preserve your claim.

If you’ve been injured in a slip and fall accident in the state of Utah, you probably talked to the manager, filled out an incident report, and gave them some basic information. Most likely, in a day or two, you’re also going to get a call from an insurance company wanting a recorded statement about the fall. I recommend that people generally do not give that statement without talking to an attorney first. The reason for that is that the attorneys or the insurance agents that call have been trained to ask questions in a specific way, and the way they’re asking questions is to get the information they need to drive down the value of your case.

Talk to an attorney first, then decide if you want to give the recorded statement.

The other day, I had an individual come into my office who, while shopping, stepped in a slippery material and fell down, and they were injured. They wanted to know, “How long is this case going to take to settle or resolve?” I explained to them there are a number of factors that come into play, but usually the biggest factor is the type of injuries sustained and how long it’s going to take you to recover from those injuries. Some injuries are minor, and you make quick recoveries from those injuries, and some injuries are more severe and require more time and more medical care to make a recovery.

Once you have made a recovery from your injuries, or reached a stable point, we then communicate with your doctors and gather up your bills and your records. We use those bills and records to negotiate a full and fair settlement with the insurance company. A lot of times we’re successful and we’re able to bring a claim to a resolution at that point. At times, insurance companies are unwilling to offer full and fair value, and so we then have to file litigation and take your case to court.

Understand that we are always pushing as aggressively and as quickly as we can to bring your case to a resolution, while also understanding you only get to settle these cases once. We don’t want to settle these cases until we have a full understanding and idea of what your injuries are.