Dickson City Personal Injury Lawyers

Yes. Retail stores, restaurants, and other businesses in Dickson City have a legal duty to maintain reasonably safe premises for customers. If you slipped on a wet floor, tripped over merchandise in an aisle, or fell due to a defective escalator or stairway, the business may be liable if they knew or should have known about the hazard and failed to address it. Our attorneys obtain incident reports, surveillance footage, and maintenance logs to prove the business was negligent.

Constructive notice means the property owner should have known about a dangerous condition even if they claim they did not actually know. If a hazard existed for a long enough time that a reasonable property owner would have discovered and corrected it through regular inspections, the law treats the owner as if they had actual knowledge. For example, if a spill sat on a store floor for an hour without anyone cleaning it, the store likely had constructive notice.

Our firm handles medical malpractice cases on a contingency fee basis, meaning you pay nothing upfront and owe no attorney fees unless we recover compensation for you. We also advance all case expenses — including medical expert fees, court costs, and investigation expenses — and only recoup those costs from a successful recovery. This allows injured patients to pursue complex malpractice claims without any financial risk.

A wrongful death action is brought by the deceased person's beneficiaries — typically a spouse, children, or parents — and compensates them for their losses, including funeral expenses, lost future income, and loss of companionship. A survival action is brought on behalf of the deceased person's estate and recovers damages the deceased could have claimed if they had survived, such as pain and suffering before death and medical expenses. Both actions can be filed together.

Pennsylvania's modified comparative negligence law allows you to recover compensation even if you were partially at fault, as long as your fault does not exceed 50%. Your award is reduced by your percentage of responsibility. For example, if you were 20% at fault and your damages total $100,000, you would recover $80,000. Property owners and their insurers frequently argue the victim was careless — our attorneys counter these claims with evidence of the owner's negligence.