Pleasanton Slip and Fall Lawyer

A fall on someone else’s property is rarely just clumsiness. A wet floor with no warning sign, a broken stair, or a cracked walkway at Stoneridge Mall, a Hacienda Business Park office, or a Tri-Valley grocery store can put a person in the hospital, and California law holds property owners responsible for keeping their premises reasonably safe.

Mirador Law handles premises liability claims from our Pleasanton headquarters. The question is whether the owner knew or should have known about a dangerous condition and failed to fix it or warn about it within a reasonable time, the standard set out in Civil Code section 1714 and jury instruction CACI 1003. We build that case with incident reports, maintenance records, and surveillance video, much of which can disappear if no one preserves it. The general deadline to file is two years under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1, and pure comparative negligence means partial fault reduces but does not bar recovery.

A look at how these cases unfold

The following hypothetical examples illustrate how these cases can unfold. They are not based on any specific client and are provided for educational purposes only. A shopper slips on a spill in a Pleasanton store aisle that staff had been told about but had not cleaned or marked. Store records and video showing how long the spill sat unaddressed establish that the store had notice and time to act.

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