For most Californians, whether they live in Bakersfield, Manhattan Beach, Inglewood or L.A., shopping is a favorite pastime, particularly in beautiful outdoor malls with all the major retailers. Many retail stores are situated alongside spacious courtyards, up dramatic escalators and around elegant fountains. However, consumers don’t usually consider the hazards in those sophisticated shopping malls when they’re out browsing. There may be puddles near fountains, broken stair steps or torn doorway rugs. That can mean premises liability injuries, because accidents happen in the most unexpected locations, including those gleaming, spotless, spacious department store bathrooms.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 234,000 people over 14 years old were treated in U.S. emergency rooms in 2008 for injuries that took place in bathrooms. Nearly every bathroom accident is a slip and fall injury due to wet floors-which can mean sprains, broken bones, scrapes and cuts, even traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries, which could require surgeries.
As an experienced personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles, Mickey Fine has seen all types of slip and fall injuries. People slip and fall in Bakersfield department stores and have Manhattan Beach shopping mall injuries in all kinds of areas-in restrooms with cracked floor tiles, in crowded dressing rooms, cluttered aisles and on malfunctioning escalators. Shoppers sometimes have parking lot slip and fall accidents on the way to or from their car, in oily, slick parking garages, on rain-soaked parking lots sidewalks and in poorly lit store entrances off of dark parking lots.
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