I just fell at the post office at the time I fell the customers helped me up and I didn’t really feel anything wrong but when I arrived back home my real knee is swollen what should I do?
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I just fell at the post office at the time I fell the customers helped me up and I didn’t really feel anything wrong but when I arrived back home my real knee is swollen what should I do?
I was walking into the post office and tripped over the
rug and fell down the customers helped me up and
the cashiers ask me was I ok but none of them came
out so I said I was ok I arrived at home and noticed
my knee is swollen what should I do?
Asked on February 16, 2017 under Personal Injury, California
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
First, unless you incur several thousand dollars of out-of-pocket (not paid by insurance, Medicare or -caid, etc.) medical bills or serious life impairment or disability lasting many months (or longer), there is no point in suing: you can only receive compensation for actual costs or injuries, but would have to hire a medical expert witness (which are expensive) for a case like this--hence, for small costs or short term pain, soreness, etc. there is no point in suing or taking legal action.
Second, even if you did have large costs or serious injury, to win, you'd have to prove that there was something unreasonably dangerous about the rug. If there was not (i.e. if it was just a regular rug, like millions of homes and offices have) the post office is not at fault; and if they are not at fault, they are not liable, since the fact that you were injured in their space does not, by itself, make them liable. Only if they created an unreasonably dangerous condition might they be liable.
Based on what you write, it is therefore unlikely that you have a viable case.
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