Slips and Falls

In Minnesota someone who slips and falls on someone else's property may not necessarily be entitled to file a claim. Laws covering this area are complicated but, essentially, it is the injured person's responsibility to prove that the slip and fall occurred because the property owner was negligent in some way.

For example, you could be shopping at the grocery store and slip in a pool of milk that was hard to see on the brightly-lit linoleum floor. If the milk had been there for awhile and no one had come to clean it up, you may have a claim. Obviously the amount of time that a property owner might consider "reasonable" for milk to be on the floor may differ from yours. That's why it's important to have an attorney help you navigate this tricky bit of law.