New York Premises Liability Lawyers

Premises liability involves injuries that occurred on some else's property due to the negligence of the property owner—or by the owner's actions that created an unsafe condition.

Premises liability also includes incidents of negligent security. For instance, a crime or attack that was preventable through better security conditions.

Smiley & Smiley, LLP is a knowledgeable and experienced law firm at helping those harmed in premises liability cases hold the appropriate property owners and business owners, or other third parties, accountable for their negligent or harmful actions.

Call Smiley & Smiley, LLP at 1.866.SMILEYLAW, toll-free, to begin protecting your rights and advising you right away.

Premises Liability Issues

The laws and circumstances concerning an owner's or operator's liability vary:

• For instance, an immunity law might prevent any sort of recovery in matters involving government premises.

• In the context of a construction site, owners must take special care to protect passer-bys from danger.

• A host of an event is responsible for warning guests of any known hazards on the property.

• At a store or place of business, the owner or manager must inspect the premises so as to ensure his customers' safety.

Premises Liability Case Results

Examples of Results Obtained by Smiley Law in Premises Liability Cases

• $1.5 Million for a 37-year-old business student who was struck in the head by a cocktail shaker that flew from a bartender's hands while at a restaurant bar. As a result of the blow, our client suffered a brain lesion that permanently impaired her ability to focus her eyes.

• $3.5 Million structured settlement for a two-year-old infant who was badly scarred and spent one month in the Cornell Burn Center when she was struck by scalding water and steam that escaped from a defective radiator when the steam escape valve of the radiator blew off. We proved that the managing agent of the Bronx housing project failed to properly maintain the radiator resulting in a breach of warranty of habitability under the New York State Real Property Law.

• $1.6 Million settlement for the family of a 40-year-old man who was crushed to death when a slab of ice fell on him from the roof of a gas station as his wife and 3-year-old child witnessed the devastating event.

• $750,000 for a young woman who was raped at gunpoint in her office after hours in the Times Square area. The management of the building was found to be negligent for not having either a guard or a security system.

• $1,498,600 verdict for a 37-year-old hairdresser who tripped and fell while descending a stairway in the New York Hilton Hotel. There was a defect in the stairway which caused our client to fall and sustain permanent damage to her knee, which required multiple surgical procedures.

• $1.15 Million settlement on behalf of a 46-year-old single parent and his 5-year-old son who suffered severe burns when their housing project apartment became engulfed in flames from an electrical fire in the middle of the night. We proved that the housing project failed to maintain working smoke detectors which would have warned the father and son in time to escape from injury.