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Slip & Fall at Bowling Alley Gives $157K Damages

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Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane explain slip & fall personal injury claims. No Win No Fee Lawyers in Qld. Free legal advice 24/7.

Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane explain slip and fall injuries on business premises. No Win No Fee Lawyers providing services throughout Qld. FREE legal advice 24/7.

I was recently having a game of bowls at a popular ten pin bowling establishment with my young nieces when I inadvertently stepped over the fowl line onto the very slippery alley surface, slipping & falling to the amusement of my competitors! And to add insult to injury, I managed to hit nothing at all!

Fortunately, although a bit sore, I didn’t suffer any serious injuries, but had I done so, then the bowling alley would have been liable for my injuries & any loss and damage I sustained as a result.

Slip & Fall the result of Negligence & Bowling Alley Liable to Pay Injury Compensation

This is because the bowling alley was negligent, and placed me at risk of injury. Why is this ? Firstly, the bowling alley had no clear marking of the fowl line indicating where the slippery alley surface began. There was also no signage warning of the danger whatsoever. There was no warning not to step over the fowl line as it was excessively slippery and could cause injury and neither was there any verbal warning of this when purchasing our game of bowls. The lighting in the area was also very poor, making the delineation between the fowl line and the slippery alley difficult to see. And as an  amateur at the sport of ten pin bowling, I was clearly unaware of the dangers as well as susceptible to crossing the line in my amateurish attempts to bowl a strike and required this warning.Continue reading→

Trip & Falls on Footpaths

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No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Brisbane and Gold Coast explain claims for trip & falls on footpaths.

Brisbane and Gold Coast Personal Injury Lawyers explain trip & fall personal injury claims where occurring on footpaths. No Win No Fee Lawyers, servicing Brisbane, Gold Coast & all Qld.

We commonly receive claim enquiries involving injuries from trip & falls on footpaths. These claims are usually against the local Council that has responsibility for and control over these areas of public land.

Because of the vast areas of public land Councils are responsible for, Courts are normally hesitant to find against these bodies in such claims. The issue being that Council’s cannot possibly be aware of every crack in a footpath or protruding tree root, in the large areas they oversee. Courts also consider that people should take care for their own safety when walking in public areas. And typically, local Council’s strenuously defend such claims, on these very grounds.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Explain Trip and Fall Claims Against Local Councils

The vast majority of falls on footpaths are due to uneven paving, protruding tree roots, or hidden indentations in the ground. To be successful in a claim arising from such events, it’s necessary to show the local Council was made aware of the danger prior to your trip & fall because of complaints made to it, or it had undertaken work in the area and  therefore ought to have been aware of the hazard. For example, where the Council has undertaken maintenance of a footpath or nature strip and has failed to remove a protruding tree root, or where the Council removes a tree and doesn’t properly fill in the resultant hole.Continue reading→