Premises Liability Attorneys - Negligent Security - Slip, Trip, and Fall

Property owners are responsible for maintaining safe property conditions and keeping their guests, commercial patrons, and others reasonably protected from the risk of injury when they are on their premises. When negligent maintenance, dangerous property conditions, or even inadequate security results in serious injury or death, the victim or surviving family may have a claim against the landowner or other responsible party for damages.

If you believe you were injured due to unsafe property conditions, contact the Ohio premises liability attorneys at Friedman, Domiano & Smith. We can help you collect the compensation you need from a landowner, hotel chain, retailer, amusement park, or other defendant in situations such as the following:

• Falls from porches or balconies due to structural unsoundness, missing handrails, or insufficient lighting
• Injuries suffered on rides at carnivals, fairs, or amusement parks
• Dangerous conditions at recreation centers or swimming pools
• Construction injuries caused by unsafe conditions at the worksite
• Falling on icy sidewalks made especially dangerous by poor drainage

Our premises liability attorneys can also represent you in cases involving negligent security. If you were the victim of a violent crime or sexual assault in a shopping mall, stadium, public parking garage, office building, or anywhere else where private security arrangements are typically in place, we can investigate the circumstances to see whether the security arrangements were adequate in light of known risks or past incidents.

The Ohio unsafe premises lawyers at Friedman, Domiano & Smith also handle cases under the attractive nuisance doctrine that was recognized a few years ago by the Ohio Supreme Court. The attractive nuisance law provides that a property owner or other possessor can be liable in cases where trespassing children are injured or killed by dangerous property conditions that were not secured against the use of children too young to understand the danger, but whose natural curiosity might lead them into the hazard. In the landmark case announcing the attractive nuisance doctrine, a child drowned in an abandoned private swimming pool—and so did his mother in the attempt to save him.

For further information about our ability to represent you in a lawsuit against a negligent property owner, contact a Cleveland premises liability attorney at Friedman, Domiano & Smith.