A Dangerous Condition
The investigation begins with what allegedly made the property unsafe: liquid, ice, broken pavement, defective stairs, inadequate lighting, debris, an elevation change, damaged flooring, or another hazardous condition.
Premises Liability Representation Across Nassau County
Nassau County Slip and Fall Lawyer
Falls caused by unsafe property conditions can result in fractures, head injuries, spinal injuries, surgery, lost income, and long-term limitations. Marks Law Group represents people seriously injured in slip, trip, and fall accidents throughout Nassau County.
111 Great Neck Road, Suite 201-M · Great Neck, NY 11021
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$40M+
Recovered for injured clients over Harris Marks’ career*
15+ Years
Legal experience handling serious injury matters
Great Neck Office
Local Nassau County presence
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Slip and Fall Representation in Nassau County
A fall can happen in seconds, but the consequences can last for months or years. A fractured hip, torn ligament, spinal injury, traumatic brain injury, or other serious condition may require surgery, rehabilitation, time away from work, and significant changes to everyday life.
Marks Law Group represents people injured because of allegedly dangerous property conditions throughout Nassau County from our office in Great Neck. Led by Harris L. Marks, Esq., the firm investigates property ownership and control, how the hazardous condition arose, what notice may have existed, maintenance and inspection practices, surveillance evidence, witness information, and the full extent of the resulting injuries.
Slip and fall cases can arise in stores, apartment buildings, restaurants, parking areas, offices, sidewalks, stairways, shopping centers, hotels, construction areas, and other public or private properties.
A property owner or other party is not automatically responsible simply because someone fell. The evidence must support a legal basis for holding the defendant responsible for the dangerous condition and resulting injuries.
New York Premises Liability
What Must Be Proven in a Nassau County Slip and Fall Case?
Premises liability often turns on the condition itself, who controlled the area, how the hazard developed, what the defendant knew or reasonably should have known, and whether the condition caused the injury.
Ownership & Control
Determining who owned, occupied, maintained, managed, or controlled the location can be critical. Leases, management agreements, maintenance contracts, and other documents may help establish which parties require investigation.
Creation or Notice
A premises-liability investigation may examine whether a defendant created the condition, actually knew about it, or whether evidence supports that the condition existed long enough that it should have been discovered and addressed.
Evidence about the condition can disappear quickly.
Spills can be cleaned, snow and ice can melt, broken areas can be repaired, surveillance video can be overwritten, and employees or witnesses may become difficult to identify. Early investigation can therefore be particularly important in premises-liability cases.
Dangerous Property Conditions
Slip, Trip and Fall Cases We Handle
Falls can result from many different property conditions. The cause of the fall determines the evidence and potentially responsible parties that must be investigated.
Wet & Slippery Floors
Water, spilled products, cleaning materials, tracked-in moisture, leaks, grease, and other substances can create dangerous walking surfaces.
Snow & Ice
Ice, refreezing water, untreated walkways, parking areas, entrances, and snow-removal practices can become important issues in winter premises-liability claims.
Broken Sidewalks & Walkways
Cracked pavement, holes, uneven slabs, height differentials, deteriorated surfaces, and other defects can cause serious trip-and-fall injuries.
Stairway Accidents
Broken steps, defective handrails, irregular dimensions, slippery surfaces, poor maintenance, and inadequate lighting can contribute to stairway falls.
Poor Lighting
Insufficient lighting can make stairs, elevation changes, obstacles, debris, and dangerous surface conditions difficult to see.
Debris & Obstructions
Merchandise, boxes, cords, construction materials, misplaced objects, and other obstructions can create trip hazards in walking areas.
Property Types
Where Slip and Fall Accidents Can Happen
Responsibility can differ depending on the type of property, ownership arrangement, maintenance responsibilities, and circumstances surrounding the accident.
Stores & Shopping Centers
Grocery stores, retail stores, malls, pharmacies, and other businesses can involve spills, merchandise, floor conditions, entrances, parking areas, and maintenance practices.
Apartment & Residential Buildings
Falls can involve common hallways, stairs, entrances, sidewalks, elevators, parking areas, and other portions of residential properties.
Restaurants & Hotels
Food and beverage spills, wet entrances, stairs, flooring conditions, maintenance issues, and lighting can require investigation.
Parking Lots & Garages
Potholes, broken pavement, ice, drainage problems, wheel stops, lighting, and pedestrian pathways can become relevant to parking-area injury claims.
Offices & Commercial Properties
Lobbies, corridors, stairways, entrances, exterior walkways, and shared common areas can involve several owners, tenants, managers, or maintenance companies.
Public Property
Sidewalks, public buildings, municipal property, transit-related property, and other publicly controlled locations can involve additional notice and filing requirements.
Proving the Property Condition
Evidence That Can Matter After a Slip and Fall
Premises-liability cases can turn on evidence showing what the condition looked like, how long it existed, who was responsible for the area, whether inspections occurred, and what happened immediately before and after the fall.
Some of the strongest evidence may exist only briefly. Surveillance systems can overwrite footage, conditions can be repaired, and snow, ice, or liquid conditions can change.
Photographs and video of the exact condition.
Surveillance footage from the property or nearby businesses.
Incident and accident reports.
Witness names and contact information.
Inspection, cleaning, maintenance, and repair records.
Weather and snow-removal evidence when relevant.
Ownership, lease, and property-management documents.
Medical records documenting the resulting injuries.
Comparative Fault
What If You Were Partly Responsible for the Fall?
Property defendants may argue that an injured person should have seen the condition, was distracted, chose an unsafe route, ignored a warning, or otherwise contributed to the accident.
Partial Fault Does Not Automatically End a Claim
For ordinary premises-liability actions, current New York CPLR §1411 generally provides that a claimant’s culpable conduct does not bar recovery. Instead, recoverable damages are diminished in proportion to the claimant’s share of culpable conduct.
The Evidence Still Matters
Whether an injured person’s conduct contributed to a fall depends on the visibility of the condition, lighting, warnings, surrounding circumstances, reason for being in the area, and other evidence.
Fault should be evaluated based on the specific accident rather than assumed from the fact that a person fell.
Serious Fall Injuries
Injuries Caused by Slip and Fall Accidents
A fall can create substantial forces on the head, spine, hips, shoulders, knees, wrists, and other parts of the body.
Fractures
Wrist, arm, ankle, leg, hip, and other fractures may require reduction, surgery, hardware placement, hospitalization, and lengthy rehabilitation.
Traumatic Brain Injuries
Striking the head during a fall can result in concussion, intracranial injuries, cognitive symptoms, headaches, and other neurological consequences.
Neck & Back Injuries
Falls can cause disc injuries, fractures, nerve involvement, spinal conditions, and other injuries affecting mobility and function.
Knee & Ankle Injuries
Twisting or abrupt impact during a fall can damage ligaments, cartilage, tendons, bones, and other structures.
Shoulder & Arm Injuries
Attempting to break a fall can cause shoulder tears, dislocations, fractures, wrist injuries, and other trauma.
Catastrophic Injuries
Severe falls can cause permanent neurological, spinal, orthopedic, or other injuries requiring lifelong treatment or assistance.
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Damages & Recovery
Compensation After a Serious Nassau County Fall
Potential compensation depends on the injuries, liability evidence, responsible parties, available insurance coverage, financial losses, future needs, and applicable law.
Medical Expenses
Emergency treatment, hospitalization, surgery, physicians, specialists, diagnostic testing, therapy, and other accident-related medical care can be relevant.
Lost Income
Serious injuries may prevent someone from working during treatment, surgery, rehabilitation, and recovery.
Reduced Earning Capacity
Permanent limitations can affect the work someone is able to perform and the amount they may be capable of earning in the future.
Future Medical Care
Some injuries require future procedures, ongoing therapy, medications, assistive equipment, or other long-term care.
Pain & Suffering
Where recoverable, damages may account for physical pain and other non-economic consequences of the injury.
Loss of Enjoyment of Life
Significant injuries can interfere with independence, mobility, family responsibilities, recreation, and everyday activities.
A serious premises-liability claim should be evaluated based on
the full effect of the injuries and financial losses,
not simply the circumstances of the fall itself.
Building a Premises Liability Case
Our 360° Litigation Approach
A serious slip and fall case requires more than documenting the injury. The case must also establish what condition caused the fall, who was responsible for the location, and what evidence supports liability.
Depending on the circumstances, the investigation can involve photographs, surveillance video, incident reports, inspection records, cleaning logs, maintenance contracts, leases, weather records, witnesses, medical evidence, depositions, and expert analysis.
Harris Marks has recovered more than $40 million for injured clients over his career.
*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
1
Document the Hazard
Preserve photographs, surveillance, measurements, witness information, reports, and other evidence showing the condition that allegedly caused the fall.
2
Identify Who Controlled the Property
Investigate ownership, tenancy, management, maintenance responsibilities, contracts, and other relationships involving the accident location.
3
Investigate Creation & Notice
Examine how the condition arose, whether it had been reported previously, inspection practices, repair history, and other evidence relevant to notice.
4
Develop the Damages Case
Document medical treatment, future care, lost income, reduced earning capacity, functional limitations, and the broader consequences of the injury.
Filing Deadlines
How Long Do You Have to File a Slip and Fall Lawsuit in New York?
The correct deadline depends on who is responsible for the property and the type of claim involved. Different requirements can apply when a municipality or other public entity is involved.
Many Negligence Claims
Many New York personal injury actions are subject to the three-year limitations period contained in New York CPLR §214 .
That period should not be assumed to apply to every defendant or every premises-liability claim.
Municipal & Public Property
When a tort Notice of Claim is legally required against a public corporation, General Municipal Law §50-e generally requires service within 90 days after the claim arises in covered circumstances.
Evidence Can Disappear Much Earlier
A statute of limitations may provide years to commence some lawsuits, but surveillance footage, snow and ice, spills, maintenance records, witnesses, and physical conditions can change or disappear far sooner.
Do not assume every slip and fall claim has a three-year deadline.
Public entities and other defendants can be subject to different notice and filing requirements. The responsible parties should be identified as early as possible.
Where We Serve
Slip and Fall Representation Across Nassau County
Marks Law Group represents people injured on unsafe property throughout Nassau County from our physical office in Great Neck.
Great Neck
Manhasset
Port Washington
New Hyde Park
Mineola
Garden City
Hempstead
Hicksville
Levittown
Freeport
Long Beach
Valley Stream
This page addresses Nassau County slip, trip, and fall claims. Marks Law Group also handles other serious personal injury matters throughout Nassau County and Long Island.
Nassau County Slip and Fall Attorney
Harris L. Marks, Esq.
Harris L. Marks, Esq. represents people seriously injured because of allegedly unsafe property conditions throughout Nassau County, Long Island, and New York.
From Marks Law Group’s office in Great Neck, Nassau County, Harris handles premises-liability matters involving substantial injuries, contested responsibility, disputed notice, multiple potentially responsible parties, and significant financial losses.
These cases often depend heavily on evidence that exists at the property itself. The firm’s approach emphasizes early investigation, evidence preservation, detailed damages analysis, and preparation for litigation.
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Serious cases prepared with litigation in mind.
Premises Liability
Property conditions and notice evidence investigated.
Great Neck
Physical office located in Nassau County.
Experience & Preparation
Serious Premises Liability Cases Require Serious Preparation
Every slip and fall claim depends on its own property condition, evidence, injuries, responsible parties, insurance coverage, and applicable law.
$40M+
Recovered for injured clients over Harris Marks’ career
15+ Years
Legal experience handling serious injury matters
Great Neck
Nassau County office serving injured clients throughout the county
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Prior results do not guarantee future outcomes.
Related Injury Claims
Other Serious Personal Injury Cases
Depending on how an injury occurred and its consequences, another Marks Law Group practice area may also be relevant.
Nassau County Personal Injury
Marks Law Group represents people seriously injured through negligence throughout Nassau County.
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Severe brain, spinal, orthopedic, and other permanent injuries may require detailed analysis of lifetime medical and financial needs.
Catastrophic Injury Lawyer →Wrongful Death
When an unsafe property condition results in a fatal injury, the estate and family may need to evaluate New York wrongful death and survival claims.
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Our Nassau County Office
Marks Law Group in Great Neck
Marks Law Group’s physical office is located in Great Neck, Nassau County. From this office, the firm represents slip and fall and serious personal injury clients throughout Nassau County.
Great Neck Office
Marks Law Group, P.C.
Our Great Neck location provides a local Nassau County base for representing people seriously injured because of unsafe property conditions throughout the county.
Marks Law Group, P.C. 111 Great Neck Road, Suite 201-M Great Neck, NY 11021 (516) 687-9763
Common Questions
Nassau County Slip and Fall FAQ
Answers to common questions after a serious fall on someone else’s property.
How do I know if a property owner is responsible for my fall?
Responsibility depends on the specific property condition, who owned or controlled the area, how the condition arose, whether the defendant created it or had actual or constructive notice of it, and whether the condition caused the injury.
A property owner is not automatically liable simply because a fall happened on the property.
What if I slipped on snow or ice?
Snow and ice cases can depend on when precipitation occurred, the condition at the time of the fall, snow-removal or treatment efforts, drainage, refreezing, weather records, property responsibilities, and other facts.
Photographs, weather information, maintenance records, and witness evidence can be especially important.
What if I was partly responsible for the fall?
Under current CPLR §1411 , a claimant’s culpable conduct generally does not bar recovery in an ordinary premises-liability action. Instead, damages otherwise recoverable can be reduced according to the claimant’s share of fault.
How long do I have to file a slip and fall lawsuit in New York?
Many New York negligence actions are subject to the three-year limitations period in CPLR §214 , but that is not a universal deadline for every defendant or circumstance.
Public entities can involve substantially different requirements, so the responsible parties should be identified promptly.
What if the fall happened on municipal or public property?
Claims involving municipalities and public corporations can involve additional notice and filing requirements.
When a Notice of Claim is legally required, New York General Municipal Law §50-e generally requires service within 90 days after the claim arises in covered circumstances.
What evidence should I preserve after a slip and fall?
Useful evidence can include photographs and video of the condition, surveillance footage, witness information, incident reports, inspection and cleaning records, maintenance records, repair history, weather evidence, medical records, and proof of financial losses.
How much is a Nassau County slip and fall case worth?
There is no standard value. Potential compensation depends on factors including the severity and permanence of the injuries, medical treatment, future care, lost income, earning capacity, liability evidence, available insurance, comparative fault, and the effect of the injuries on daily life.
What areas of Nassau County does Marks Law Group serve?
Marks Law Group’s physical office is located in Great Neck. The firm represents premises-liability and serious injury clients throughout Nassau County, including Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington, New Hyde Park, Mineola, Garden City, Hempstead, Hicksville, Levittown, Freeport, Long Beach, Valley Stream, and surrounding communities.
Injured in a Slip and Fall in Nassau County?
If you suffered a serious injury because of an unsafe property condition, Marks Law Group can review what happened, investigate who may be responsible, and discuss your options for pursuing compensation.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Nothing on this page creates an attorney-client relationship or constitutes legal advice.