Onsite/Premise Injury

We represent many people who have been seriously injured on property. If you are injured on the job, in a building or on someone’s property, chances are that there was a dangerous condition that causing your injuries. When a person is injured on someone’s premises, whether they can recover depends on many factors. One important factor is whether the dangerous condition was hidden or latent. Another factor is why you were on the premises. Depending on what a person is doing on the premises determines what warnings or duties the landowner or person in charge of the premises owes to the injured person. In Washington State, the courts divide injured persons into three categories. An invitee is someone on the premises for economic or business reasons. A licensee is a social guest. Finally there are trespassers, who have no legal basis for being on the property.

Slip and falls in stores and restaurants are a special type of premise liability cases with special requirements for recovery in addition to the categories described above.