General Negligence

In recent years, while serving a wide range of personal injury areas, the general negligence aspect of our practice has also focused on claims involving premises liability, highway defects, and product liability.

We resolve premises liability cases involving unsafe conditions related to individually owned properties, large commercial buildings, and real estate with ongoing building construction. Wet surfaces from water, snow, and ice as well as poorly lit areas, and hidden or obscured holes in the ground can result in slip and fall accidents. Accidents may also occur in commercial buildings because of slippery conditions caused by spilled substances, slick or uneven flooring. Construction sites are subject to hazardous conditions and accidents occur frequently as a result of defective or improperly constructed scaffolding, falling structures as well as slips or falls due to materials left lying around the sites.

Our attorneys often find that highway defects are an underlying cause of car and motor vehicle accident where significant impacts have occurred. Catastrophic injuries frequently result from multiple vehicle crashes. Discovering highway defects and proving the highway was defective, may provide additional sources of compensation for seriously injured victims.

Defective testing, flawed design, substandard manufacturing, and marketing misrepresentation not only result in product defects, but also form the basis for product liability cases when accompanied by serious injury. Hazardous household products, defective automobiles, and harmful pharmaceutical products are common examples of the wide spectrum of defective products associated with product liability lawsuits.

At Drew, Cooper & Anding, the innovative skills of our attorneys play an integral role in identifying new theories of liability and possible sources of payment. We often take on general negligence cases referred to us by other attorneys who have reviewed situations which they are unable to handle.