Long story short, I slipped on ice and really broke my leg. The store front I slipped on never salt nor shovel, and they still don't. Can anyone recommend a good lawyer? I'm kind of broke, but am missing work because of this injury.
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Do you have any form of disability insurance? Whether one you own yourself or through your work? Check if the store has any coverage that could include something that you could claim against.
Going the lawyer route could be costly, but if you get a letter sent to them by a lawyer they might get scared and offer you something without going the full legal route.
Just by $0.02...
Going the lawyer route could be costly, but if you get a letter sent to them by a lawyer they might get scared and offer you something without going the full legal route.
Just by $0.02...
Or you could just be a man and deal with it rather than being another McDonalds coffee lady looking for a payday. That's the problem with the world today, its never anyone's fault and we all think we are untitled to a payday.
You do have my apology if you have a mental handicap. As stated "the store front I slipped on never salt nor shovel" - knowing this you still decided to risk life and limb (literally limb I guess) and go there where a sane person would stay away from such a place of claimed danger. The store is supposed to take responsibility for you by determining that the surface is too slippery to be walked on, but you do not have any of the same sort of responsibility yourself? You cannot decide, that looks dangerous, maybe I should go to another store?
Maybe its a family run business where they work 18 hours days and didn't have time to put down salt for your Royal Highness. Would be great if they were forced by the court to support your broke ass, justice at its best.
If you do decide to go the lawyer route it might be cheaper than you think. Since this store was such a danger every other customer entering it must have slipped and fell too, you couldn't have been the only moron. You could launch a class action lawsuit splitting the legal costs.
Do yourself a favor son, stop blaming the world with crap like "government is the puppet of the corporate" and crap like this. Be a man, grow a pair, and move on with your own life. - Ask your boss for modified work duties, if you are worth anything to them working will not be a problem. If it is, you need to take a look in the mirror.
This is being discussed in an escort forum because?
You do have my apology if you have a mental handicap. As stated "the store front I slipped on never salt nor shovel" - knowing this you still decided to risk life and limb (literally limb I guess) and go there where a sane person would stay away from such a place of claimed danger. The store is supposed to take responsibility for you by determining that the surface is too slippery to be walked on, but you do not have any of the same sort of responsibility yourself? You cannot decide, that looks dangerous, maybe I should go to another store?
Maybe its a family run business where they work 18 hours days and didn't have time to put down salt for your Royal Highness. Would be great if they were forced by the court to support your broke ass, justice at its best.
If you do decide to go the lawyer route it might be cheaper than you think. Since this store was such a danger every other customer entering it must have slipped and fell too, you couldn't have been the only moron. You could launch a class action lawsuit splitting the legal costs.
Do yourself a favor son, stop blaming the world with crap like "government is the puppet of the corporate" and crap like this. Be a man, grow a pair, and move on with your own life. - Ask your boss for modified work duties, if you are worth anything to them working will not be a problem. If it is, you need to take a look in the mirror.
This is being discussed in an escort forum because?
Sorry about your luck.
You might blame the store but it is the property owner you have to deal with. I worked for in many malls and plazas, clearing the snow was the responsibility of the property owner or management company overseeing the property. You are going to have to make sure the store that you constantly visit in bad weather is also the property owner.
Be prepared to answer some silly yet relevant questions. First one of the top of my head, were you wearing appropriate footwear for the weather. I think you have 24 hours to clear your sidewalk in whitby after a snow fall, do businesses fall under that category too?
I was speaking with my insurance broker last week (because someone hit my car) and she was saying if i had been hurt I was only entitled up to a maximum payment of $400 per week for missing work, that might be all you'd get too. I'm glad I wasn't hurt because that would have been a massive paycut.
You might blame the store but it is the property owner you have to deal with. I worked for in many malls and plazas, clearing the snow was the responsibility of the property owner or management company overseeing the property. You are going to have to make sure the store that you constantly visit in bad weather is also the property owner.
Be prepared to answer some silly yet relevant questions. First one of the top of my head, were you wearing appropriate footwear for the weather. I think you have 24 hours to clear your sidewalk in whitby after a snow fall, do businesses fall under that category too?
I was speaking with my insurance broker last week (because someone hit my car) and she was saying if i had been hurt I was only entitled up to a maximum payment of $400 per week for missing work, that might be all you'd get too. I'm glad I wasn't hurt because that would have been a massive paycut.
What's your problem man? The op didn't say he was visiting the store, perhaps he was just walking past it to go somewhere else. Even if the store owners are working 18 hours a day, they can't be that busy that they can't throw some salt on the slippery sidewalk.
From the overall unjustified negative tone of your reply, we could guess that you've been the recipient of one of these legal actions.
Actually... I'm with lookingman here! We as a society need to stop blaming everyone else. (And looking for a payday as a result).
WE ALL get stung by these ludicrous dealings. Insurance rates are as high as they are, because of all this shit. The only ones that win, are the scumbag ambulance chasing lawyers.
To the OP... Dude, you slipped and fell. You wanna blame someone? Blame your self for being careless. The conditions were OBVIOUSLY not in ANYONE'S favour during the ice storm.
Suck it up, and deal with it.
I ave to agree. Everyone in the province knew about the winter conditions here recently. Are we going to start paying everyone who falls down on the ice because he made his own choice to go out and take the risk then falls on his face. If thats the case, Im going to go out and start looking for any spec of ice I can find so I can collect an I dont want to work for it paycheck. As previously stated, gents, settlements arent paid by someone else, they are paid by you and I.
Regardless of the fact that during icy conditions, I believe people should venture out at their own risk. It is the responsibility of home and business owners to make things as safe as possible, not doing so opens them up and makes them liable for litigation in the case of injury.
This isn't a case of Micky D's coffee, where the buyer should be aware that hot coffee is indeed hot. The courts in the states should be ashamed of themselves for verdicts like this.
There are personal injury lawyer's in the phone book or available via Google. Some don't charge unless there is a payday.
This isn't a case of Micky D's coffee, where the buyer should be aware that hot coffee is indeed hot. The courts in the states should be ashamed of themselves for verdicts like this.
There are personal injury lawyer's in the phone book or available via Google. Some don't charge unless there is a payday.
And THIS is why insurance cost so fucking much! What, you think the insurance company is just going to fork over the dollars???
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The problem is , Where do you stop?. As I property owner I did my best to keep my walks clear during the recent storms but as anyone with a spec of common sense knows, It is impossible to always have your property ice free in Canada. Does this mean that some individual who doesnt want to work for a living and his lawyer be allowed to take away everything I or someone else has actually earned by working for. Individuals have to take some resposibility for themselves in this world. I can go out on any day and trip on any crack in a sidewalk. Does that mean I shouldnt have to work for a living because I have some sense of entitlement that we cant afford to pay for. Might I reccomend moving to Florida if you cant cut it here. Nobody will stop you.
The problem is , Where do you stop?. As I property owner I did my best to keep my walks clear during the recent storms but as anyone with a spec of common sense knows, It is impossible to always have your property ice free in Canada. Does this mean that some individual who doesnt want to work for a living and his lawyer be allowed to take away everything I or someone else has actually earned by working for. Individuals have to take some resposibility for themselves in this world. I can go out on any day and trip on any crack in a sidewalk. Does that mean I shouldnt have to work for a living because I have some sense of entitlement that we cant afford to pay for. Might I reccomend moving to Florida if you cant cut it here. Nobody will stop you.
As a property owner who has done his due diligence would be exempt from litigation, but one who has not, would be open to litigation. It falls under reasonable standard of care. It is your legal responsibility to take care of your premises, in failing to do so, you open yourself up. So the blame in this can be the owner who does not take care of his premises and just lets his insurance company pay out. Those people are worse than the ones who sue for everything, when it's their own fault.
So with the rationale of some of you here.....if the roads aren't completely free of ice because someone didn't salt it and you/your family member were killed in an accident as a direct result of it...you/your family should just suck it up and move on???
WOW!
The law is quite specific on all of this .....its called responsibility...your store front your responsibility...plain and simple...
I'm responsible for 10's of thousands of lives on the highway, everytime it snows out....so I guess if someone dies on my watch because of my neglect...next time I'll just say....sucks to be you?
WOW!
The law is quite specific on all of this .....its called responsibility...your store front your responsibility...plain and simple...
I'm responsible for 10's of thousands of lives on the highway, everytime it snows out....so I guess if someone dies on my watch because of my neglect...next time I'll just say....sucks to be you?
If the business has liability insurance (and they should have) the insurance company will be the one paying out with or without lawyers.
If he was walking past a store, and the roof fell on him then yes there is a reason to sue. But ice!! This is Canada!!
2 weeks ago during the ice storm I was at a nice hotel. I was leaving very early in the morning 2am. The parking lot was an ice rink, literally.. So much so that the slight slope of the lot sent me skating down into a bumper of a car. I had to hold on the the front of each car to prop myself up and push myself to my car. Did I sue the hotel? Of course not! Its CANADA there is ice!! I made the choice to go out in bad weather!! I could see the ice, I know its icy and slippery in the winter, so I did so at my own risk!
No one forced me to walk on the ice. I could've stayed. Same as with this guy, if it was as deadly as he claims he didn't have to go there. He made a choice. Ice is normal in Canada in the winter. Crap happens, take you lumps and stop blaming the world!
There was a hard working elderly man I knew. He took a tumble at a mall one day in the winter. Part conditions, part the fact that he wasn't very mobile anymore. The fall turned the side of him black and blue and he was in a great deal of pain. I've broken my leg so I know what that feels like, this guy was hurting 100 time what a broken bone is. He picked his ass up off the ground, limped over to his car, and went back to work the next day in a great deal of pain that most people wouldn't deal with. He didn't sue anyone, he didn't blame the world, he took his lumps and dealt with it all - that my friends is a man. This money hungry freeloader my friends is a chump. - "i'm broke" says it all
Actually screw my stories, everyone who has lived more than 10 years has had the same experiences and knows the difference between freeloading and rolling with the punches.
*** I'm not the only one who pays the price of these sort of legal actions, WE ALL ARE. Consider what your high home and auto insurance covers. As for high business insurance rates for crap like that, guess who pays again, YOU the consumer as prices are inflated to cover the cost of business including high insurance premiums. Think, say I own a store that sells stuffed animals and flowers inside of a mall - what sort of sane person is going to be able to hurt themselves in a store like that? But yet still I have to carry liability insurance for fools like this! Oh, you ask, what about a dangerous wet floor? Well with me being the owner, I am risking my own life in the store for 12 hours a day 6 days a weeks, and my own insurance will not cover myself.. Interesting eh.
)My mistake, he didn't say the time. If he slipped on feel on ice on the 4th of July you have a point.
Try doing that yourself! I worked with a cast, I broke it installing a garage door opener on a ladder.
Then he was AWARE of the conditions BEFORE he DECIDED to go there! He knew it was icy and slippery but decided to go anyhow!
True slip and fall is the unexpected. You are walking through a grocery store you EXPECT to be dry and have traction. There is something on the floor you CANNOT SEE that you slip on. World of difference there.
Then a reasonable normal, healthy person such as yourself should put on their bicycle/football/motorcycle helmet each time they leave their house during winter. The fact that you didn't make a choice to protect yourself when you apparently know the risk, how can that be anyone's fault but your own?
Try this. Say I crash my car on an icy road during the winter. Can I sue the town or province because there was ice on the road during the winter? Of course not. MY OWN insurance covers that and if I don't have MY OWN insurance I am shit out of luck. There are many insurance products individuals can buy for themselves to offer protection from their own stupidity.
