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Click For Your Free ConsulationPosted in Slip and Fall Accidents on May 29, 2025
Slip-and-fall accidents are common in New York City, where inadequate sidewalk and parking lot repairs and poor building maintenance are common problems.
If you’ve suffered a slip-and-fall injury but your injury does not require surgery, you may think it isn’t worthwhile to file a claim. Unfortunately, many injury victims do not receive the compensation they deserve because of this commonly held misbelief.
A slip and fall lawyer in New York City will be able to assist with all your legal needs. Call (212) 564-2800 today.
No one begins their day expecting to end it in an emergency room with a painful injury, yet nearly 40 million injury-related emergency room visits occur each year in the United States, many of which result from falls.
A sudden slip causes the fall victim’s body to painfully twist during the fall, often overextending muscles, tendons, and ligaments before the blunt-force trauma of hitting the floor. A fall can cause many painful and temporarily or permanently debilitating injuries, many of which do not necessitate surgery. Common non-surgical slip-and-fall injuries include the following:
In most cases, the above injuries do not require surgery, but they are painful, expensive to treat, and often cause days or weeks of lost wages. With a serious accident causing injury to the back, our NYC spinal cord injury attorneys are here to fight for the financial compensation that you deserve.
Injuries can quickly cause financial stress or even hardship for entire families when a slip-and-fall injury affects a family’s primary provider. A single large emergency room bill, combined with a week or more of lost pay, adds up to significant damages, even when the injury does not require surgery. Common damages recovered in non-surgical slip-and-fall injuries include the following:
Those who work jobs requiring physical labor often suffer substantial income loss during their recovery period after a slip-and-fall accident.
The elderly are especially vulnerable to serious injuries in slip-and-fall accidents, and may suffer a decline in their quality of life even after suffering injuries that do not require surgery but cause mobility problems and decreased activity level.
A property owner has a legal duty of care to individuals who are lawfully on their property and not trespassing or engaging in criminal activity. This duty involves regularly inspecting the property, recognizing and addressing safety concerns such as slip-and-fall hazards, and promptly correcting problems to prevent harm to others. Breaching this duty of care constitutes negligence, leaving the property owner liable for the injured victim’s damages. A slip-and-fall accident victim does not have to undergo surgery to recover the fair compensation they deserve for their injury-related losses.
A slip-and-fall accident attorney has experience with clients who’ve suffered severe pain and a significant disruption to their earning ability and enjoyment of life, even for injuries that do not require surgery. Personal injury lawyers carefully calculate non-surgical injury damages to maximize a slip-and-fall victim’s financial recovery so they can focus on their physical recovery.
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