HOUSTON PREMISES LIABILITY LAWYER
Property owners have a duty to keep people safe. When they ignore it, we hold them accountable.
Houston Premises Liability Lawyer
Businesses, apartment complexes, hotels, and commercial property owners are responsible for the safety of the people they invite onto their property. When an owner ignores a known danger, fails to fix a hazardous condition, or cuts corners on security in a place where crime was foreseeable, the results can be devastating. Cammack Law Firm represents people who have suffered serious injuries, and families who have lost loved ones, because a property owner failed to act. We investigate what the owner knew and when, and prepare every case for trial.
MOST SERIOUS PREMISES CASES COME DOWN TO ONE QUESTION: WHAT DID THE OWNER KNOW, AND WHAT DID THEY DO ABOUT IT?
WHEN IS A PROPERTY OWNER RESPONSIBLE?
Under Texas law, a property owner’s duty depends on why you were on the property. Owners owe the highest duty to invitees, such as customers, guests, and tenants. An owner can be held responsible when they knew or should have known about an unreasonably dangerous condition and failed to fix it or adequately warn about it.
In negligent security cases, the question is whether the crime was foreseeable. Courts look at whether similar crimes had happened on or near the property, how recently and how often, and whether the owner knew or should have known about them. Texas law also requires landlords to provide certain security devices, such as working deadbolts and door viewers, and to repair or replace them when tenants ask.
PREMISES CASES WE HANDLE
- Negligent security, including shootings and assaults
- Apartment and hotel security failures
- Serious falls from stairs, balconies, and elevated areas
- Structural collapses and building code violations
- Swimming pool drownings and injuries
- Fires, electrocution, and elevator accidents
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WHAT YOU CAN RECOVER
- Past and future medical expenses
- Lost wages and loss of future earning capacity
- Physical pain and mental anguish
- Physical impairment and disfigurement
- Counseling and treatment for trauma
If someone was killed, the family may also have a wrongful death claim. In negligent security cases, the property owner can often be held responsible even though a criminal caused the harm.
HOW WE BUILD YOUR CASE
Premises cases are won with evidence of what the owner knew. We move quickly to preserve surveillance video, which is often overwritten within days, along with incident reports, maintenance and repair records, tenant complaints, security contracts, and the property’s history of prior incidents and police calls. We work with security experts, engineers, and building code specialists to show what a reasonable owner would have done and how the danger could have been prevented.
In most Texas premises cases, the deadline to file a lawsuit is two years. If the property belongs to a city, county, or other government entity, much shorter notice deadlines may apply, sometimes as little as six months or less. Please don’t wait to get advice.
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