Shopping carts facilitate the shopping process; they allow us to easily carry our items. After our shopping is complete, we can carry our items out to our vehicles. Although shopping carts are designed to be convenient, they can also prove to be anything but a convenience. In fact, shopping carts can be dangerous. Shopping carts could contribute to incidents which could leave unsuspecting shoppers suffering serious injuries.
Did you suffer an incident associated with a shopping cart? If you suffered a shopping cart injury, you should consider the legal options that might be available. Depending on the details surrounding the incident, you might have grounds to pursue a claim against the store in which your accident occurred. If you would like to learn more about your right to pursue a claim after suffering a shopping cart injury, do not hesitate to seek legal assistance with the experts at our law firm as soon as possible.
At Normandie Law Firm, our lawyers have many years of experience handling all sorts of claims, including shopping cart injury claims. We are not afraid to pursue claims against the entities liable for the harm that you or a member of your family suffered. Would you like to learn more about your right to sue a shopping cart injury claim and your right to recover compensation? If so, do not hesitate to contact the experts at our firm at your earliest convenience.
The Causes of Shopping Cart Incidents
Shopping cart incidents can occur at all major stores, including grocery stores like Albertson’s, Vallarta, Pavilions, Vons, Smart and Final, Northgate, Food4Less, Trader Joes, Sprouts, Wholefoods, and Erewhon, for instance. Shopping cart incidents can also occur at bit box stores, such as Home Depot, Sam’s Club, Costco, Walmart, and Lowes, for example. Even if shopping cart incidents occur at different stores, they can occur under similar circumstances.
Some possible causes of shopping cart incidents include the following:
- Defective shopping carts
- Poorly maintained shopping carts
- Recklessness of other shoppers (who are pushing the carts)
- Poorly maintained premises (i.e. potholes in parking lots can cause shopping carts to get stuck and cause incidents)
Regardless of whether you were hit by a shopping cart or the shopping cart was defective and suddenly stopped in front of you, you might have suffered a number of injuries.
Possible Shopping Cart Injuries
Although ever situation is different, shopping cart incidents could result in a number of injuries, which could include the following:
- Head injuries
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Broken bones
- Pelvic injuries
- Hip injuries
- Lacerations
- Abrasions and contusions
- Nerve injuries
- Sprains and strains
Did you suffer harm associated with a shopping cart incident at a supermarket or big-box store? If so, you might have grounds to sue. You should speak to a shopping cart injury lawyer to learn more bout your right to sue.
Who Is Liable for Your Shopping Cart Injuries?
Can I sue for shopping car injuries? Do I have a case? If you have found yourself asking these questions, you might be interested in learning that you might be eligible to pursue a claim against the store for the shopping cart injuries that you suffered. To better understand your right to pursue your claim, you must have a thorough understanding of the concept of premise liability. Based on premise liability, all property owners have a duty of care towards their visitors. This means that store owners must ensure that their entire premises are free of hazards. This extends to shopping carts. Their shopping carts must be maintained and free of any possible dangers that could contribute to incidents that could harm consumers. When stores fail to ensue that their entire premises are free of hazards, they can contribute to the harm that shoppers suffer. Because of the concept of premise liability, store owners could be liable for the harm that shoppers suffer due to accidents on the premises. This means that affected shoppers could pursue claims against the store. In other words, you could sue the store and fight for your right to be compensated for the harm that you suffered. If you would like to learn more about establishing liability for the harm that you suffered and your right to sue, do not hesitate to seek legal assistance with the experts at our law firm immediately.
What Should You Do?
If you or a member of your family suffered harm associated with a defective product, there are a number of steps that you should follow to prepare to hold the liable entity accountable for the harm suffered:
- Take photos of all injuries
- Take photos of the shopping cart
- Take photos of the entire scene of the accident
- Take photos of the hazard that contributed to the incident
- Get the attention of a manager (an employee/manager should acknowledge the incident)
- File a written incident report with the manager on-duty
- Request a copy of the incident report
- Take note of the name of the manager, any employees that helped you, and the date/time of the incident
- Speak to witnesses and collect their testimonies
- Request video footage of your accident
- Seek medical attention as soon as possible (if necessary, request emergency care)
- Gather all medical records
- Seek legal assistance with the experts at our firm as soon as possible
Could You Recover Compensation?
Are you eligible to receive compensation for the harm that you or a member of your family suffered due to a shopping cart incident? Based on the details surrounding the incident and the harm suffered, you could recover monetary compensation – if your claim reaches a successful outcome. What could you be eligible to receive if your claim reaches a successful outcome?
Some of the categories of compensation that might be available for recovery include the following:
- Medical expenses
- Lost earnings
- Pain and suffering
- Property damage
- Loss of consortium
- Funeral and burial expenses
- Punitive damages
Would you like to learn more about the type and amount of compensation that you could be eligible to recover upon reaching a successful claim outcome? If so, do not hesitate to seek legal assistance with our shopping cart injury attorneys as soon as possible. Our lawyers are ready to aggressively fight for your right to recover the compensation that you are owed.
Filing within the Statute of Limitations
Are you interested in pursuing a claim for the shopping cart injuries that you suffered? If so, you should make sure that you file your claim within the appropriate length of time. All claims are subject to a statute of limitations, which determines the specific length of time that claimants have to sue. If you fail to file your claim within the appropriate length of time, you could lose your right to sue.
What is the statute of limitations that applies to your claim? In California, all personal injury claims, including shopping cart injury claims, are subject to a two-year statute of limitations. This means that claimants will only have two years to pursue their claims. Besides being familiar with the statute of limitations that applies to your claim, you must be aware of any exceptions that could apply. If any exceptions apply (based on the details of your claim), the applicable statute of limitations could be tolled or paused.
To ensure that you are aware of the time that you have to sue, do not hesitate to seek legal assistance with our experts immediately.
Contact Normandie Law Firm Immediately
Were you injured in a shopping cart incident? If so, you might have grounds to file a shopping cart injury claim. You could pursue a claim against the store in which your accident occurred. If you would like to learn more about your right to pursue a claim for the harm resulting from the accident, do not hesitate to seek legal assistance with the experts at our firm immediately. At Normandie Law Firm, our lawyers have many years of experience handling all sorts of claims. In the past, we have represented shoppers who have suffered shopping cart injuries; we have helped them recover the compensation that they are owed. If you would like to learn more about your right to pursue a claim for the harm that you suffered, do not hesitate to seek legal assistance with our experts at your earliest convenience.
Our firm is dedicated to remaining accessible to all victims of shopping cart incidents. We offer free legal services, which include free consultations and free second opinions. During our free consultations and free second opinions, our lawyers will be available to answer all your questions and address all your concerns. You can trust that our shopping cart injury lawyers will be available to provide you with absolutely all the information that you might need to pursue your claim and reach a successful outcome. Whether you want to start your claim or redirect your claim after dealing with an incompetent lawyer, you can trust that our lawyers will provide you with all the guidance that you need to reach a successful claim outcome. If you would like to benefit from our free legal services, contact our experts at your earliest convenience.
Our firm also offers a Zero-Fee guarantee, which ensures that our lawyers will never be required to pay any upfront legal fees for any of our legal services. Our firm is also strictly based on contingency; this means that our clients will not be required to pay anything until after reaching a successful claim outcome. If you do not win, you will not have to pay anything.
Would you like to discuss your claim with the experts at our firm? If so, contact our firm immediately.
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