Over $10 Million in Case Settlements Won
If you suffer an injury in a slip or fall in Philadelphia, slip and fall attorney Jeffrey Penneys can help you recover compensation. Jeffrey Penneys has experience helping victims like you secure settlements against property owners in their premises liability cases.
You have the right to expect restaurant owners, retail store operators, mall owners and other public property owners maintain a safe building. When owners fail in their duties, depend on the Law Offices of Jeffrey Penneys as your slip and fall lawyer.
Call your Philadelphia Slip and Fall Lawyer now at 215-798-9416.
– Expertise.com award as one of the best personal injury lawyers in Philadelphia
– 25 years of experience handling Philadelphia slip and fall claims
-Successfully negotiated high value compensation with the big insurance firms for injury victims
If you have a claim for injuries you sustained in a slip-and-fall accident, how do you prove it? One option is work with your Philadelphia slip and fall attorney to prove the property owner owner’s negligence.
As a Philadelphia slip and fall lawyer for 25+ years, and as an advocate for victims injured in slips and falls. I stand up for you and your rights. Insurance companies may resort to bullying tactics with unrepresented victims, but they know better than to try it with me.
They also know from previous experience what to expect from me in court – which is precisely why I am able to settle over 90 percent of my clients’ slip and fall claims.
Unfortunately, slip and fall accidents proportionately impact the elderly. In fact, according to the National Institute on Aging, one out of every three senior citizens suffers a slip and fall accident every single year. Some of these slip and fall accidents will support a compensation claim, and some will not. Working with a local slip and fall lawyer can help you establish grounds for a case and show the other party acted negligently in failing to meet their duty of care.
As an experienced Philadelphia slip & fall lawyer I know exactly how to investigate your case, uncover the facts and prove liability so you get compensated for your slip and fall injuries.
Beyond my work with local Philadelphia slip and fall injury victims from my Center City offices, I also travel throughout Pennsylvania to meet with slip and fall victims across the state. My service area includes the following Pennsylvania cities:
Upper Darby slip and fall victims depend on skilled premises liability lawyers to handle their case in Delaware County. Book a free case review with the Law Offices of Jeffrey Penneys to explore your Upper Darby personal injury options.
Harrisburg, PA slip and fall victims from City Island to Allison Hill require local experience for their premises liability cases. The Law Offices of Jeffrey Penneys can respond in minutes to your call to ensure urgent slip and fall cases are handled based on over 25 years of legal experience.
Book an Allentown, PA slip and fall attorney with over 25 years of experience serving slip and fall clients from the East Side and Rittersville to Hamilton Park in the west end of the city. The Law Offices of Jeffrey Penneys offers a free review to answer your slip injury questions.
From a slip and fall at a business parking lot, to a fall down the stairs in an apartment building, Jeffrey Penneys is your trusted Reading, PA slip and fall lawyer. Call today to confirm your free consultation and the team will offer a free case review.
Many slip and fall accidents are caused by improper or poorly maintained flooring.
To work with a Philadelphia slip and fall lawyer, and assert improper flooring claim, you must actually have fallen as a result of the flooring material being inappropriate. Some other examples of potential “causes of action” in slip-and-fall accident claims in Philadelphia include:
Grocery stores, restaurants, entertainment venues, and other businesses in Pennsylvania have a legal obligation to maintain their premises reasonably free of slip-and-fall hazards. If you slipped on a spill that had not been cleaned up (or cordoned off) in a reasonable amount of time, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
In certain situations, property owners can meet their legal obligations by warning of spills and other slip hazards rather than remedying them immediately. However, if a property owner does not provide an adequate warning in a timely fashion (e.g. by placing signs or cordoning off the area), then it may be liable for injuries resulting from a slip and fall.
In some cases, cleaning up or providing a warning isn’t enough. Sometimes, repairs are necessary. In fact, failure to make necessary repairs is among the most common issues in slip-and-fall accident claims.
Building and safety codes require handrails to be installed in stairwells and various other locations, and failure to install necessary handrails can lead to serious slip-and-fall accidents. Failure to repair loose and broken handrails can lead to unexpected slips and falls as well.
Inadequate lighting can make it difficult, if not impossible, to see slip-and-fall hazards at night and in dark areas. In addition to avoiding and remedying fall hazards, business and property owners also have a duty to ensure that visitors and guests can adequately see where they are walking.
Here in Philadelphia, we get more than our fair share of ice and snow. While business and property owners have some amount of leeway when it comes to clearing and treating snow and ice on their premises, failure to take reasonable measures to prevent a weather-related, slip-and-fall accident can support a claim for financial compensation.
You will need to seek slip and fall compensation from an insurance company for your slip and fall accident. Insurance companies make their money by selling people policies and then denying slip and fall insurance claims whenever they can. That’s why you need a slip and fall lawyer with decades of experience handling complex slip and fall claims.
Many insurance adjustors are brutally effective negotiators because they’ve been facing victims just like you for decades now. As your slip and fall lawyer, Jeffrey Penneys provides you the legal representation you need to succeed in your case and get a fair settlement in the Pennsylvania courts.
At the Law Offices of Jeffrey Penneys, our slip and fall attorney has expertise and experience in all slip and fall personal injury cases. You shouldn’t pay for another person’s negligence. If you have been injured in a slip and fall accident in Philadelphia, contact a slip and fall attorney in Philadelphia for legal assistance. For legal questions about damages and the slip and fall claims process, call 215-798-9416.
In Pennsylvania the deadlines are:
If you miss the deadline, your claim will probably be forever barred.
Although a settlement is obviously preferable, you might end up having to do both. Filing a lawsuit is the only way to convince some defendants that you mean business so that they will offer an adequate settlement. Filing a lawsuit does not necessarily mean you will go to trial.
Pennsylvania applies a “comparative negligence with a 50 percent bar” rule to accidents in which more than one party was at fault. This means that if you were more than 50 percent at fault, you can recover nothing; otherwise, you can recover your damages discounted by your percentage of fault. For example, if your case is worth $100,000.00 and it is determined that you are 40% at fault, you will recover $60,000.00.
The ball is not likely to really get rolling on your claim until you hire an effective, aggressive Philadelphia slip & fall attorney to fight for your rights. Since evidence deteriorates over time, the sooner you get started, the better.
Because I win about 95 percent of my slip and fall cases, I work on a contingency system. In the unlikely event that I fail to win compensation for you, you will owe me a grand total of $0.00 in legal fees for the entire case. If I do win compensation, my legal fees will be proportionate to the size of your compensation.
Essentially, then, it is the defendant or his insurance company who ultimately pays your legal fees.
I am proud to represent personal injury victims all over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Law Offices of Jeffrey H. Penneys, Esq.
230 S Broad St #904, Philadelphia, PA 19102