Can I sue my school if I was injured on a wet stairway?
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Can I sue my school if I was injured on a wet stairway?
I was walking down the stairs in my school. The school ceiling leaked rain and the stairs were slippery. The school provided neither sign nor supervision cautioning me of the slippery stairs. As a result I slipped and fell down bruising my tail bone.
Asked on September 17, 2014 under Personal Injury, Arizona
Answers:
Anne Brady / Law Office of Anne Brady
Answered 10 years ago | Contributor
Yes, you probably have a good slip-and-fall case here. Schools have a heightened responsibility to keep their premises safe for their students. The key is whether the school did anything negligent. If they were aware of a leak and did not repair it, and also did not post any signs warning of what they knew to be a wet staircase, then they will liable for any injury you suffered. You do not say what your medical bills were if any. If you had any medical bills as a result of this, even if paid for by insurance, you should seek out a personal injury attorney here in Arizona. I had a case just like this about two years ago against a community college here in the Valley, and the woman injured got a decent settlement. In that case, the school failed to put out mats for people to wipe their feet in the rain, and people tracked rain water on to the floor, which got wet as a result, and there were no warnings posted, and the plaintiff slipped and fell and hurt herself.
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