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Brooklyn Uneven Flooring Accident Lawyer

Many of Brooklyn’s structures are among the oldest in New York City. While Brooklyn residents enjoy the borough’s historical aspects, property owners have a crucial legal responsibility to provide routine maintenance and repairs to prevent injuries to anyone lawfully on their property. One of the most basic aspects of maintaining safe premises is addressing uneven flooring to prevent slips, trips, and falls. Failure to repair uneven flooring leaves a Brooklyn property owner liable for the damages caused to an injury victim.

Contact a Brooklyn premises liability attorney today to pursue compensation for your injuries.

Call The Law Offices Of Jay S. Knispel at (212) 564-2800.

What Causes Uneven Flooring In Brooklyn Buildings?

Brooklyn may be home to some of the nation’s oldest historic buildings, but not every old building is meticulously maintained by the Landmark Preservation Commission. Many of the borough’s structures are elderly, crumbling buildings that require constant upkeep for safety. The most common causes of uneven flooring include the following:

• Broken tiles
• Broken or uneven floorboards
• Warped underflooring
• Foundation damage
• Structural settling
• Root intrusion
• Rotting joists or beams
• Unmarked floor level changes, such as step-downs and step-ups
• Badly worn carpets

Property owners have a legal duty of care to those who lawfully enter their property. Commercial property owners who run stores, restaurants, hotels, apartment buildings, and other businesses, have an enhanced duty of care to those they invite onto their property for business purposes. Repairing warped, broken, or uneven flooring falls within a property owner’s reasonable duty of care.

How Does Uneven Flooring Cause Injuries?

Walking is an automatic reflex that doesn’t require conscious thought. Instead, the body falls into a natural rhythm of footsteps. When something interferes with a footstep, it throws the body off balance, resulting in a fall.  In the worst cases, the body overextends as it twists and falls, and then suffers blunt force trauma when hitting the floor. In other cases, an injury victim hits an obstacle on the way down, compounding the trauma.

Injuries in uneven flooring slip-and-fall cases in Brooklyn include the following:

• Traumatic brain injuries, which range from concussions to more severe injuries
• Fractures
• Neck injuries
• Back injuries
• Soft-tissue injuries to the knees, wrists, ankles, and shoulders
• Lacerations, contusions, and abrasions
• Facial and dental trauma
• Spinal cord injuries
• Internal bleeding

The above injuries are not only painful, but they may also require expensive medical treatment and time away from work. In the worst cases, an uneven flooring injury can cause permanent disability.

What Can I Recover in a Brooklyn Flooring Accident Claim?

When you’ve suffered a serious injury, the damages add up quickly. Common recoverable damages in a premises liability claim against a negligent Brooklyn property owner include the following:

• Reimbursement for your medical expenses
• Anticipated future medical expenses
• Out-of-pocket injury costs
• Lost wages
• Future income loss or diminished future earning ability
• Compensation for pain and suffering

If you’ve suffered a catastrophic injury, you could recover additional compensation for permanent harm, such as scarring, disability, or loss of enjoyment of life with the help of a Brooklyn slip and fall attorney.

How Can a Brooklyn Uneven Flooring Accident Lawyer Help Me?

Proving that your serious injuries were caused by a fall that was the direct result of uneven flooring can be challenging. An injury victim must also prove that the property owner was aware of the uneven flooring and failed to take appropriate action. Then, the injury victim (the plaintiff in the case) must show evidence that the injury caused economic damages as well as physical pain and suffering. This takes an experienced investigation and compelling evidence.

Call or contact The Law Offices of Jay S. Knispel for skilled legal representation that gets results.