Knee Injury After a Fall in a Parking Lot

When you go to a business or a rental property, you expect that the owner has kept the premises reasonably safe. Legally, property owners have a duty of care to do exactly that. If they don’t, the law holds property owners accountable for injuries caused by poor maintenance.

For instance, if a person trips over debris in the poorly lit parking lot of a grocery store, he or she probably has a valid premises liability claim for the resulting knee injury. Why? Because the property owner failed to prevent foreseeable harm.

The property owner was negligent, because poor lighting and debris lying on the ground where people routinely walk can foreseeably cause someone to be injured. The key to the claim of negligence is foreseeability. For example, if the knee injury was caused by a fall due to an earthquake, that would not be foreseeable.

Knee injuries are particularly painful and often require surgery to correct. If your knee injury after a parking lot fall was caused by unsafe conditions, you may have a solid legal claim against the property owner.