Cincinnati Landlord Liability Attorney

Under Ohio premises liability law, you have a right to recover damages whenever the negligent action or inaction of your landlord or property manager results in slip-and-fall injuries, which range from serious fractures to head trauma and spine injuries, among others. Damages may include medical costs, lost income, and pain and suffering, and other types of damages and compensation.

Proving landlord liability in a slip-and-fall claim in Ohio can be tricky. There are four elements that must be proven. These include:

• Care of duty: This simply means that the landlord had a duty of care to keep the premises in a safe condition for you.
• Breach of care of duty: Once it is established that the landlord was duty-bound to keep the premises safe, you must show that he breached this duty. For instance, he failed to fix a frayed carpet and it caused you to slip and fall as a result.
• The breach of duty of care caused your injury: Causation is also an element that must be shown in a landlord slip-and-fall liability claim. The landlord’s failure to fix your frayed carpet is the reason that you became injured, for example. If you tripped over your cat in the same spot, then blame shifts from the landlord to you.
• Damages resulted: And finally, you don’t have a case unless you have an injury that results from the breach of duty of care. If you fell but didn’t need medical treatment and didn’t need to miss work as a result, then you don’t have any damages to show and can’t collect an award for damages that don’t exist.