CCD Law stands up for Spokane victims who are allowed to suffer harm in unsafe public places and businesses. Business and property owners have a duty to keep visitors, tenants, clients, and customers safe. That includes protecting them from the risk of physical assaults and other criminal acts.
If you’ve been seriously hurt due to the negligent security of a property owner, contact CCD Law for a free case consultation.
When Should I Consider Contacting a Lawyer?
If you are seriously hurt due to a lapse in security in a public place, it’s an appropriate time to consider seeking a lawyer’s help.
With serious injuries, the recovery time is longer, and the medical bills are bigger. This makes liability insurance providers fight much harder. They want to avoid providing you with what you’ll need to pay your hospital expenses and replace your lost income.
In this rush to avoid fully compensating you, they’ll try to blame you or others for an attack. They question the severity of your injuries, trying to get away with paying off only a portion of your medical debt.
Your Spokane Negligent Security Lawyer takes a deep look at what happened, collects all evidence, and is ready to fight back for you. Your lawyer also negotiates to get the maximum settlement available. This is often much more than you could earn on your own.
Taking Advantage of a Free Consultation
CCD Law offers all injured victims in the Spokane area a free, no-strings-attached case consultation. It’s a way to determine what your injuries and emotional trauma are worth after a frightening attack. It’s also a great time to learn about the lengths insurance companies will go to when downplaying what happened to you.
Contact CCD Law to schedule a free case review with a real Spokane attorney. Find out your best path to getting help and rebuilding your life.
Support for Assault Victims
Property owners, business owners, landlords, even the City of Spokane can be held liable if you are hurt in buildings and on land they own or maintain.
They are liable when they don’t provide enough security, when they don’t provide safe, well-lit parking areas, and someone gets hurt.
Owners and operators will have commercial liability insurance, and victims can ask them for these and other benefits:
- Medical Bills (Past and Future).
- Potential lifetime costs of a physical disability, including home care and medical equipment expenses.
- Support for the physical pain injured patients endure.
- Support for the emotional trauma patients can experience after a scary attack.
- Wages and benefits the patient loses while away from work.
- Wrongful Death Benefits for families who lose a loved one to an attack in an unsafe environment.
Owners are liable for the safety of visitors, but support is not guaranteed. Businesses and government entities will have teams of lawyers ready to help get them off the hook. If your incident leaves you with a serious injury, it’s wise to have legal representation of your own.
See: When You Have a Premises Liability Case Against Property Owners
Signs of Negligent Security in Your Case
Property owners must do everything possible to keep their guests, tenants, customers, and clients safe. It’s a legal duty under premises liability laws that extend to landlords, schools and colleges like Gonzaga University, and to the city when people are visiting Riverfront Park and other public spaces.
In Spokane, that’s an incredibly important responsibility as people must worry about their security wherever they travel around town. Owners must protect visitors. They can even be liable for failing to warn customers about an increased risk of crime in the area.
Owners can fail their visitors in many ways.
These are a few of the most common failures involving negligent security:
- Disabled or broken locks and alarms on buildings
- Lack of security fencing or failure to repair fences
- Security cameras not installed or not working
- Unsupervised parking lots and front doors
- Dark parking lots and unsupervised city parking garages and hotel parking garages
- Alleys left dark in downtown Spokane
- Unsupervised public bathrooms
- Unmonitored apartment complexes, a lack of lights
- Not enough security guards
- Not enough security around areas known for drug use, drug dealing, and intoxication
- Untrained security guards (including campus police negligence)
- Threat from staff members hired with criminal records
- Failing to inform customers of safety hazards in high-crime areas
These and other mistakes can leave local business operators and corporate owners 100% responsible for your injuries. The harm caused by a physical assault, or even a sexual assault, should never be the victim’s trauma to face alone.
Suing the City of Spokane for Negligent Security
Spokane city departments can also be held liable for leaving you unprotected in public areas. This can include on city greenways and in city parks. Spokane County can be liable for assaults suffered in county parks.
The duty can apply to downtown areas, like parking garages and public sidewalks, if you are assaulted and injured.
Lawsuits against government departments can be much more complex, and it’s smart to consider having a lawyer for your case. Spokane will have government lawyers ready to help pick apart your claim.
When you sue a government agency, there are also shorter deadlines to notify the city and file lawsuits. If you miss these cutoff points, you can lose your chance to hold a negligent city department liable for your injuries.
Contact a Spokane Negligent Security Attorney
If you were allowed to be hurt in a public place with negligent security in place, contact us to set up a free case consultation. It’s an easy way to find out if you need a lawyer and what your next step should be.
We serve victims across Spokane County and Eastern Washington. We are advocates for the victims of crime and of negligent businesses and property owners. We stand up for all assault victims and can represent victims who were visiting from out of state when they were hurt.
What’s more. You don’t have to worry about how you’ll afford a lawyer during such a difficult time. CCD Law doesn’t charge any upfront fees for representation. We get started immediately and don’t receive any payment unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement you receive.