A fall in a supermarket, a restaurant, a parking lot, or an apartment complex is not bad luck when the owner knew about the hazard. We prove what they knew, and when.
Garden Grove is a city of shopping plazas, family restaurants, supermarkets, and aging apartment buildings, many of them along Brookhurst St, Westminster Ave, Harbor Blvd, and Garden Grove Blvd. Every one of those properties owes visitors a duty of reasonable care under California Civil Code section 1714. When a wet floor, a broken step, a dark stairwell, or a lifted slab of sidewalk sends you to the hospital, the owner's insurer will argue you should have watched where you were walking. We argue with evidence.
From our office on Garden Grove Blvd, attorney Harrison Le and our team investigate falls across west Orange County. Harrison is a former public defender with more than 20 jury trials, and premises cases are where that courtroom experience matters most, because they turn on proof of notice. Our team includes Vietnamese and Spanish speakers.
The question in every fall case is the same: how long was the hazard there, and who should have fixed it?
Falls follow patterns. These are the conditions behind most of the premises cases we see in Garden Grove and the surrounding cities.
California requires proof that the owner knew, or should have known, about the dangerous condition and failed to fix it or warn you. The California Supreme Court in Ortega v. Kmart Corp. (2001) held that an owner's failure to inspect for a reasonable period is itself evidence of notice. That is where we focus.
Deadlines: two years to file suit under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1; six months to present a claim if a city, county, school district, or other public entity owns the property (Government Code section 911.2). Comparative fault applies, so a partial share of blame reduces but does not eliminate your recovery.
Premises insurers deny more claims than they pay. A trial record is the leverage that changes that.
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