Slip and Fall Attorney Tulsa
If you experienced a slip and fall injury due to the negligent act of a property owner, or occupant of a property, then you may be able to file a civil cause of
action against the party for damages pertaining to your injury.
Contact Kania Law Office for a free case evaluation with our experienced 
Slip and Fall (Premises Liability) Claim Overview
The owner or possessor of property has a responsibility to take reasonable care of their property to prevent injuries from occurring to visitors (whether by invitation (invitee), permission (licensee), and to a certain extent, trespassers). They must repair known hazardous property dangers or post visible warnings to visitors about such dangers that cannot be remedied. If a property owner or possessor of property fails to do so, he or she (or in some instances a company) may be held liable for any injuries a visitor incurs as a result thereof.
In order to bring a viable slip and fall claim against a property owner for injuries incurred due to their negligent act, you must prove the following:
The owner or possessor of the property created a dangerous condition that caused your slip and fall injury to occur;
That the owner or possessor of the property had prior knowledge of the dangerous condition that caused your slip-and-fall injury and negligently failed to correct it;
The owner or possessor of the property should have known about the dangerous condition because a reasonable person managing the property would have discovered, removed, or repaired the dangerous condition that caused your slip-and-fall; and
The owner or possessor of the property failed to warn you about the dangerous condition prior to your slip-and-fall accident occurring.
In order to prove the elements of liability referenced above, you must determine and identify who is the responsible owner or possessor of the property in which your slip-and-fall accident occurred.
Commercial Property Owners and Slip and Fall
If your slip-and-fall injury occurred on commercial property, you will have to prove that the owner or possessor of the premises (this can be a business tenant that rents the property) invited you onto the property for a business purpose and failed to warn you about a dangerous condition on the property which later caused your slip-and-fall injury to occur.
Residential Property Owners
If your slip and-fall injury occurred on residential property, you will have to prove that the property owner had control over the dangerous condition that caused your slip and fall injury, that such owner could have reasonably repaired the dangerous condition, and that the owner failed to take reasonable measures to repair the dangerous condition prior to your injury occurring.
Government Property
Recovering damages for slip-and-fall injuries occurring on government property will depend on whether the property is owned by federal, state, or a local government agency. Contact Kania Law Office’s slip and fall attorney for more information on the proper procedures slip-and-fall plaintiffs are required to take when filing a personal injury claim against such a government agency.
Slip and Fall Attorney and Types of Damages
Upon filing your slip-and-fall personal injury claim, you will have to state the type of damages you seek to collect against the defendant to compensate you for the injuries you incurred as a result of their negligent act.
Under Oklahoma State law, you may be able to request compensatory and punitive damages. Compensatory damages are to put you in a position that you would have been in had the injury not occurred. Such damages consist of medical expenses, emotional distress, pain and suffering, and loss of earnings and future loss of earnings.
Punitive damages may be awarded to you if the defendant’s negligent action was reckless, malicious, or intentional. Such damages are meant to punish the defendant in order to prevent similar conduct from occurring in the future.
In the event the jury finds that the defendant’s action was in fact reckless, the amount of punitive damages awarded cannot exceed the greater of $100,000 or the amount of the compensatory damages awarded.
In the event the jury finds that the defendant acted with malice in intentionally causing harm to you, the amount of punitive damages awarded cannot exceed the greater of $500,000, twice the amount of the compensatory damages awarded, or the increased financial benefit derived by the defendant or insurer as a direct result of the conduct that caused your injury.
Modified Comparative Negligence
Oklahoma has adopted the doctrine of modified comparative negligence. Under this doctrine of law, a portion of your damages may be reduced by the amount of your comparative negligence.
For example, you will recover damages only if you are less than 50% at fault for your slip-and-fall injury. This means that if it is determined that you are more than 50% at fault for your injury, you will be barred from recovery. Your reward amount is directly proportioned to your level of fault.
Contact a Tulsa Slip and Fall Attorney
If you would like a free consultation with an Oklahoma slip and fall attorney from Kania law Office, please call (918)743-2233 or fill out this form.
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