Premises Liability Lawyers in Harrisburg

Millions of Dollars Recovered Representing the Injured in Pennsylvania

If someone slips on an icy walkway, trips over loose carpeting, or falls down broken, dimly lit stairs, it’s not only an accident, but it’s also one that a property manager may have been responsible for preventing. This can be true whether the accident took place in a private home, a shopping center, a hotel, an amusement park, or a public place. In a similar vein, someone else may be on the hook in cases of animal attacks or crimes of assault if a property owner’s lapse in security measures can be blamed for the victim’s trauma.

However, it’s one thing to have a case and another to successfully pursue your premises liability claim in Pennsylvania. Premises liability cases are complex, but when our clients’ recovery and future well-being are on the line, our legal team can do everything in our power to help them. At Handler, Henning & Rosenberg LLC, we’re backed by more than 100 years of winning cases, and we know what it takes to pursue the compensation our clients deserve. We’ve helped more than 40,000 Pennsylvanians and counting. We may be able to help you too.

Learn more in a free consultation! Call (717) 775-7514 today to reach the Harrisburg premises liability lawyers at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg LLC.

Proving All Types of Premises Liability Claims

Whatever the details of the case, in order to prove that a property owner or manager is at fault for the accident, you’ll first have to prove that there was a hazard on the property, whether broken stairs, dim lighting, or another unsafe condition. Second, you’ll have to show that the property owner or manager knew about this hazard, or at least should have known about it. Then you’ll need to prove that they failed to fix or warn about the hazard and that you were injured in a way that was predictable given that danger. It takes seasoned attorneys like those at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg LLC to carefully establish each element of these complex cases.

Some of the cases that our premises liability lawyers in Harrisburg handle include:

• Amusement park accidents
• Animal attacks
• Assault on premises
• Dog bites
• Drowning accidents
• Hotel/motel liability
• Slip and fall accidents
• Snow and ice accidents

Whatever the specifics of a case may be, we do everything we can to help our clients move forward after they’ve suffered from someone else’s negligence, and that includes being available 24/7 for our clients.

Pennsylvania Premises Liability Law: What Your Case Depends On

Pennsylvania law determines how much a property owner owes you based on why you were on the property. Business invitees, meaning shoppers, diners, office visitors, and anyone present for a commercial purpose, are owed the highest duty of care. Owners must actively inspect, maintain, and warn about hazards. Licensees, such as social guests, are owed a narrower duty: the owner must warn of known dangers that aren’t obvious. Trespassers are generally owed no duty, although the attractive nuisance doctrine creates an exception when children are drawn onto a property by something dangerous, like a pool or machinery.

Your share of fault also matters. Pennsylvania follows modified comparative negligence, which means you can recover damages as long as you’re found less than 51% responsible for your own injury. At 51% or more, the right to recover is lost entirely. Insurance adjusters and defense attorneys can work to push your fault percentage as high as possible, which is why the evidence gathered early in a case matters so much. Premises liability claims in the Harrisburg area are typically filed through Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, and Pennsylvania’s statute of limitations generally gives injured parties two years from the date of injury to bring a claim. Missing that deadline means losing the right to recover.

What a Premises Liability Attorney at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg LLC Brings to Your Case

One thing that separates us from other firms is our full-time, on-staff investigator. Their sole focus is determining exactly what happened and who is liable, which is especially critical in premises liability cases where physical evidence disappears quickly and property owners move fast to fix conditions after an injury. Having that resource in-house means we can move quickly and build a case from the start.

Our premises liability lawyer team has the recognition to match that commitment. Multiple attorneys at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg LLC have been selected to Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers Rising Stars, named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, and hold membership in both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. The firm has been included in Best Lawyers and ranked in Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” Those recognitions reflect a consistent record of results, with tens of millions of dollars recovered in verdicts and settlements for injured Pennsylvanians over more than a century of practice.

We handle cases on a contingency fee basis, so there are no upfront costs. You pay nothing unless we win. Our attorneys also travel statewide to meet clients at home or in the hospital when getting to one of our offices in Harrisburg, Hanover, Carlisle, York, Lancaster, or Schuylkill County isn’t possible. From the first call to the resolution of your case, our goal is to get you everything you need to recover, heal, and move forward.

We want to help you get your life back. Don’t wait to speak with a premises liability attorney in Harrisburg. Reach us at (717) 775-7514 today!