Practice Area
Premises & Institutional Negligence
An injury on someone else’s property, or a failure of care by an institution, is reviewed by asking who controlled the place or the service, what they knew, and what their records show. This category explains those shared questions once and routes each setting, from a fall in a store to a nursing-facility concern, to the page that addresses its own rules.
Detailed Practice Areas
- Premises LiabilityWho controlled the property, why the injured person was there, what the owner or occupier knew about the condition, and what the inspection, maintenance, and incident records show.
- Slip-and-Fall AccidentsThe surface condition that caused the fall, how long it existed, who was responsible for the floor, and the cleaning logs, video, photographs, and incident reports that show it.
- Negligent SecurityWhether a property’s owner or operator had reason to anticipate crime on the premises and what its access controls, lighting, staffing, policies, prior incident records, and video show.
- Dog Bite InjuriesWho owned or controlled the dog, what was known about its behavior, how it was restrained, and the animal-control, medical, and witness records for Houston and Harris County.
- Funeral Home NegligenceIdentification, custody, authorization, handling, contracts, and communications in the care of a person who has died, with the regulators and records specific to funeral services.
- Nursing Home NegligenceCare plans, assessments, staffing, medication, incident reports, and survey findings in a licensed nursing facility, and the health-care-liability rules that may apply to those claims.