Slips, Trips & Falls Queensland

If you’ve had a slip, trip or fall in any of the following places, you may be able to make a claim and receive compensation:

• Supermarket
• Rental property
• Shopping centre or a shopping centre car park
• Schoolyard or sporting ground
• Other public areas

Our team at LHD lawyers are slip, trip and fall experts, and will be able to assess your case to see if you have a successful claim. Get in contact with us and we can give you no obligation advice, as well as helping you to understand your rights. All slips trips and falls are different but generally, if you’ve suffered from an injury in a public place you may be entitled to make a public liability injury claim.

Once you have sustained a slip and fall injury, you should immediately notify the management or security of the premises to ensure a report of the incident is properly recorded and reasons why it occurred. You should also consult with a medical professional and receive medical treatment as soon as possible after the accident. Ensure you keep all documentation of these assessments and if possible, obtain photographs of the situation that led to your slip and fall injury. Your lawyer will be able to talk you through the next steps and the timeline of your slip and fall case.

There are a number of factors regarding your slip and fall case that you should consider and document. These will influence the viability of your case, the amount of time the case will take and the overall compensation of your slip and fall claim , these include:

• Where the accident occurred
• Reporting of the accident
• Seeking immediate medical treatment
• How soon after the accident you contact a lawyer
• The extent and nature of the injury
• How long it took for the slip and fall injury to reach a stable condition through treatment
• To what extent your ability to work will be affected by the injuries sustained in the accident
• The extent of the medical care required to treat your slip and fall injury

Getting in contact with a slip and fall lawyer at LHD Lawyers will put you in good stead for understanding how long your slip and fall case will take to reach a conclusion.

If you’ve had a slip, trip or falls in a supermarket, rental property, shopping centre or a shopping centre car park, schoolyard or sporting ground or other public areas, you may be able to make a claim and receive compensation. In order to do so you will need to be able to prove that you were owed a duty of care in these locations and that duty of care was breached when you suffered damage or injury as a result of your slip, trip and fall accident.

Queensland has strict time limits for applying slip, trip and fall cases. You must notify the party that you consider to be at fault, of your slip, trip and fall claim by issuing a claim form in accordance with the legislation within nine months of the incident taking place, or within one month of your first meeting with a slip, trip and fall lawyer (whichever occurs first). If you miss these deadlines, you will have to provide reasons as to the delay for lodging your claim. However, the most important time limit you must follow is to file proceedings in the court within 3 years of the date of the accident but do so, you may need an order of the court in the event you have not complied with above steps in accordance with the legislation beforehand.

This the amount of compensation you can receive for slips trips and falls varies depending on where the injury occurred and who was at fault. The compensation you may receive is contingent on:

• How bad the injury is
• The effects your slip and fall accident has had on your ability to earn an income
• And the expense of ongoing treatment for your slip and fall injuries

If you have been involved in slips, trips or falls in QLD, you should speak to a slip and falls cases lawyer who has the skills and expertise to guide you through your claim. Contact one of the team today.