Slip and Fall Lawyers in Myrtle Beach

A person who slips or trips and falls can suffer serious or even fatal injuries. Slip and fall accidents in South Carolina cause hundreds of injuries like traumatic brain injury (TBI) and broken hips or other fractures every year. Falls are particularly dangerous for older people, like many residents who have retired to the Myrtle Beach area.

The circumstances of a slip and fall accident should be examined closely. The owner of the property where a fall occurs may be held legally responsible if he or she allowed unsafe conditions that led to the accident and resulting injury.

But a negligent property owner or their insurance company will often try to blame an accident on the victim. That’s when the services of an experienced slip-and-fall accident attorney like ours at Joye Law Firm can help to make sure justice is served.

If you or a loved one of yours has been injured in a fall accident on someone else’s property in the Myrtle Beach, S.C., area, Joye Law Firm can investigate to determine whether you should be compensated for your medical bills and other losses.

Since 1968, Joye Law Firm has helped thousands of accident victims obtain compensation that South Carolina law says they are entitled to receive.

Contact a Myrtle Beach slip and fall attorney today for a free, no-obligation consultation about your legal options. We pursue personal injury and wrongful death claims on a contingency-fee basis, which means we don’t charge a fee unless we recover money, and we have a track record of success for South Carolinians like you.

Here’s How Our Myrtle Beach Fall Accident Lawyers Can Help You

Ultimately, issues like “duty of care,” what a “reasonable person” would have done, whether hazards were addressed in a “timely manner,” special circumstances of your case, and degrees of negligence would be decided by a judge and jury if a lawsuit could not be settled out of court.

But to prepare your claim, our slip-and-fall attorneys would investigate to develop evidence that supports your side of the argument, such as witness statements or security footage, which may show you did nothing wrong.

Where you may have made a mistake, we can work to mitigate the impact your negligence might have on your claim. This is work a personal injury attorney working for you will do. The police and courts will not, and the property owner’s lawyers and insurers have an incentive to show that you alone were at fault.

You should speak to a slip and fall lawyer if you incur any costs and losses in a slip and fall accident. In a Myrtle Beach slip and fall case, Joye Law Firm will review the basics of your accident at no charge and investigate on a contingency basis – at no charge unless and until we obtain compensation for you.

We want you to have the compensation you are due and will do everything we legally can to secure it for you.

Do You Recognize a Common Slip and Fall Accident and Injury?

You probably understand what happened to you or have a pretty good idea how your loved one was injured. Chances are, we do too. We have seen and worked with many Myrtle Beach residents and visitors injured in slip, trip, and fall accidents.

Fall accidents happen in business offices and retail stores, apartment complexes and single-family homes, public parks, and on sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, and roadsides.

The responsible property owner may be a private citizen, a local business owner, the Myrtle Beach city or Horry County government, a civic organization, or an absentee corporate owner (often represented by a manager or other staff). They are all covered by property, business, or homeowners’ insurance, which is where a payment to you would come from.

Some of the most common causes of slip and fall accidents include:

• Wet and slippery floors
• Cracked or uneven flooring
• Torn carpeting
• Loose tiles or area rugs
• Torn or loose floor mats
• Electrical cords and wires
• Trash- or debris-cluttered walkways
• Broken handrails
• Loose or broken stair treads
• Potholes
• Inadequate lighting
• Snow and ice
• Slippery surfaces, such as certain stone or glass.
• Malfunctioning escalators and elevators.

When people fall, they are likely to reach out to catch themselves. This often leads to injuries to the hands, wrists, and forearms, particularly fractures.

In older people, broken hips are a very common fall injury and in victims over 65 years old often lead to a steady decline and premature death. Sometimes, accident victims hit other objects as they fall to the floor or ground, creating primary and secondary blunt-force trauma injuries.

Common slip and fall injuries include:

• Cuts and bruises
• Strains and sprains, particularly to the lower back
• Pinched nerves
• Broken bones, e.g., hands, arms, legs, hips, ribs, shoulders, etc.
• Damaged knees, including torn ACLs (anterior cruciate ligaments)
• Internal organ injuries
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Neck injuries
• Spinal cord injury, including paralysis.

If you recognize the slip and fall accident you were involved in and/or the injury you have suffered above, you are likely facing a painful and potentially long and expensive recovery. You may never be able to work again.

You need to talk to a Myrtle Beach slip and fall accident lawyer from Joye Law Firm as soon as possible. Some slip and fall injuries can prove fatal, even after the accident and while undergoing treatment. In such cases, family members of the deceased may seek damages in a wrongful death claim against the negligent party.

For fall accidents that occurred on the job, we can help you obtain workers’ compensation benefits, including survivor death benefits after a fatal workplace fall.