What To Do After A Slip And Fall Accident


If you should slip and fall in a store because you did not notice that the floor was wet, you should notify the owner that you would like to go to the hospital. Slip and fall accidents can happen anywhere, and if you are someone who just had one, you may need to get medical assistance to make sure that you do not have an injury that can get worse if you don't treat it. Afterward, you are going to need to deal with procedures in trying to get your money back for your treatment.

Here is some information that you can use regarding personal injury that had happened in a public location:

Get Help First

As soon as you fear that you may have an injury, let anyone around know that you would like an ambulance to be called. If you have a cellular phone, you can make the call yourself. Do not move to try to get up from the area where the fall had occurred, because of the risk of further injury. Lie there and try to be calm until help arrives.

Get Details

Look around you to try to retain any details about the fall that you may be asked at a later time. You can get caught up in the moment and forget things when asked, so try taking a few photos of the area if you are able. This will help your case should you decide you would like to try to receive money for the injury, in the near future. Ask any witnesses to please stay to answer questions when the emergency personnel arrives.

Enlist Help

If you have an injury that will cost you a lot of money, you most likely will need to hire a personal injury attorney to listen to your situation. They will be able to point you in the direction as to what forms you would need to fill out and what information the doctors taking care of you would need to provide.

It is important to hire the lawyer as soon as you possibly can so that you have an abundance of facts available. The longer you wait, the harder it is to prove that the store was the one that was negligent, causing your fall. It is difficult to prove a slip and fall case without a lot of information, so it will need to be researched in depth as soon as you have your injury.

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