Personal Injury Law

Home Depot & Lowe's Injury & Accident

Orlando home improvement stores, including Home Depot and Lowe's, are wonderful places to shop. Home owners and do-it-yourselfers find a wealth of good ideas and opportunities to improve their home and yard. Unfortunately, as Orlando injury lawyers, we have seen increasing numbers of avoidable injury claims involving Lowe's and Home Depot.

Many times these injury claims involve trip and fall hazards. For example, when shoppers are walking down aisles inside and out in the garden area, they have a right to a level, even and non-slippery surface. Yet, we have Orlando home improvement stores with floors and sidewalks that are broken, uneven and slippery. We also see aisles cluttered with trip hazards.

While no one can guarantee that trip and falls, or slip and falls will not happen, Home Depot and Lowe's can provide safe pedestrian areas to prevent avoidable injury. In many of our cases, it is important to obtain photographs of the scene of the fall. Unsuspecting injury victims who trust the home improvement store to ?do the right thing,? may be surprised when the dangerous aisle, floor or sidewalk is repaired and the owner or operator denies responsibility.

Most people are decent, hardworking and simply want to be treated fairly. Sadly, home improvement stores do not always do so when injury results from their carelessness. Fortunately, Florida law has permitted us to assist many Orlando injury victims when dangerous floors, sidewalks or parking lots have caused preventable harm. To help those who have been injured, we continue to make available a free copy of the Florida Accident & Injury Book, Seeking Justice.

Full post as published by Orlando Injury Lawyer Blog on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).