Your landlord isn’t just the person you must pay your monthly rent to. They have some legal obligations and can be held responsible for breaking them if they fail to provide you with safety.
According to a personal injury lawyer at T. Madden & Associates P. C., your landlord can be held accountable for crime-related injuries or injuries you might have sustained during a slip-and-fall accident that may have been otherwise prevented if the premises were maintained or could have deterred criminal actions.
You can sue your landlord for both tangible and intangible losses, including pain and suffering, if you work with a personal injury lawyer and determine the landlord’s failure to implement or maintain security measures that would have otherwise prevented your misfortune. Here is what you should know about suing your landlord for pain and suffering in Georgia:
Pain and Suffering in Premises Liability Cases
You can sue your landlord for crime-related and non-crime-related injuries in premises liability cases. In crime-related cases, you have to focus on whether or not your landlord could have prevented a crime but negligently failed to do it.
For example, suppose the landlord had known of prior similar criminal incidents occurring on their property. In that case, they should have informed you or taken measures to reduce the likelihood of such crimes from happening, such as informing authorities, installing CCTV cameras, not renting their property any longer to such people, or performing background checks.
If they were aware of security issues regarding their property, or if you informed them, but they didn’t take any actions, such as ensuring all doors and windows have functioning locks, and a burglar or rapist entered the premises and hurt you, you can sue the landlord for negligence and receive both economic and non-economic compensation, including pain and suffering.
In non-crime related injuries, the landlord is responsible for keeping their premises safe and maintained to prevent injuries. This means they must ensure that slips, trips, falls, elevator accidents, swimming pool accidents, or anything of the sort is prevented by taking care of their property and taking the proper safety measures or conducting repairs.
For example, if they know an elevator is faulty, they must place warning signs, inform the tenant, and fix it. In any situation where you observed something wrong, or damaged and informed your landlord about it, and they didn’t take action, resulting in your injury, you can sue them for negligence. You can receive various types of compensation, including for the pain and suffering of your recovery period.
Contact a Personal Injury Attorney
While your landlord might offer you some financial compensation, you should never accept it because you don’t know the true extent of your injuries or what else might happen if you stay in an unsafe property.
Instead, the best thing to do is contact a personal injury attorney and initiate a premises liability lawsuit. By doing so, you also do other people a favor by not experiencing the same thing that you did. A lawyer will ensure you are properly compensated for your tangible and intangible losses, including pain and suffering.
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