Premises liability

If a property owner fails to provide a safe environment, or fails to warn visitors of a known danger, and someone is injured as a result, the owner or the party responsible for maintaining the property can be held liable. The firm handles claims involving homeowners, businesses, landlords, and even vacant or abandoned lots.

Initial consultation is free. Personal injury matters are handled on a contingency basis: you owe no attorney fee unless we recover for you.

A broken stair, a poorly maintained sidewalk, or a slippery surface can cause a serious injury in a single misstep. To succeed, a claim generally needs to show one of the following:

• The property owner (or party responsible for maintaining the site) caused the unsafe condition
• The owner knew of the danger and failed to correct it, or
• The owner should have known, because a reasonably careful person would have found the problem and fixed it

A property owner’s duty extends to foreseeable criminal acts by third parties, not just physical hazards. The firm handles those claims separately: see negligent security.

A construction site depends on foremen, contractors, subcontractors, engineers, and safety consultants each doing their part to keep it safe. When a worker is hurt, workers’ compensation is often only part of the answer. Workers’ compensation pays the injured worker regardless of fault, but Georgia’s workers’-compensation damage caps don’t apply to a third party, someone other than the employer, whose negligence contributed to the accident.

When a subcontractor, an equipment manufacturer, a property owner, or another responsible party bears some of the blame, a separate third-party claim against them can recover damages that workers’ compensation alone does not reach. Because so many people carry a duty of care on a construction site, these third-party claims are common. Construction accidents can cause the same catastrophic injuries covered elsewhere on this site: see catastrophic injury.

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