The apartment that you moved into may truly feel like your home. However, since you do not own this property, you may have a false sense of how safe and well-maintained it actually is. This is to say that there may be potentially hazardous conditions lying on every corner that you either cannot reasonably identify or avoid before they ultimately cause your slip and fall or some other kind of injury. With that being said, please follow along to find out how your apartment complex can be dangerous and how a proficient Miami apartment accident lawyer at the Law Offices of Gonzelo Funes, PA can step in if you get injured here.
What facets of my apartment complex can be dangerous?
From the entranceways and common rooms to your individual rental unit itself, many facets and fixtures within your apartment complex may potentially pose a danger to you. More specific examples of this are as follows:
- At a stairwell: you may slip and fall after trying to hold onto a handrail or place your foot on a step that is improperly fastened.
- In a lobby: you may slip and fall after walking on tracked-in rain that is not aided with a mat, warned off with a wet floor sign, or mopped up promptly.
- In a hallway: you may slip and fall with being unable to identify lifted carpeting or other obstructions in your path, given the inadeqaute lighting.
- In a parking lot: you may slip and fall due to weather-related conditions like snow or ice that has not been cleared from walking paths or covered with salt.
Who is responsible for my apartment’s dangerous conditions?
In the examples listed above, your apartment complex’s landlord should most likely be the one held liable for your injuries and damages in a premises liability claim. This is because, generally speaking, they have a duty of care in maintaining the complex for safety.
That means they should routinely inspect all these areas, promptly address residents’ raised complaints and concerns, and reasonably identify and rectify any potentially hazardous conditions on their own. When there is a failure to do this, it is considered negligence, which should be compensated for in a legal action.
On your end, you must prove that this danger truly existed and prompted your slip and fall accident, rather than it being caused by your sheer clumsiness or mishaps. The best way to accomplish this may be to take photos of the danger and file an incident report with management immediately afterward.
If this is what you are currently up against, do not try to execute this lawsuit without the legal assistance of a talented Miami slip and fall lawyer from the Law Offices of Gonzalo Funes, PA. We urge you to retain our services as soon as possible.
