{"id":15223,"date":"2014-03-20T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=15223"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:15:07","slug":"ever-walked-through-a-door-and-slipped-on-a-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2014\/03\/20\/ever-walked-through-a-door-and-slipped-on-a-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever walked through a door and slipped on a floor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You walk through a door to a shop, or a supermarket, or a pub, or perhaps to your place of work \u2013 and as soon as you walk through the door you slip on the floor. It can be as painful as it is embarrassing \u2013 and it may mean that you have a claim for personal injury compensation if this happens to you.<\/p>\n

So can you claim? If so, how much does it cost?<\/p>\n

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Can I claim!?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

It all depends on why you slipped and what you slipped on. If you slipped because of a spillage, or perhaps because water has come from rain or similar wet weather from outside, you may have a claim for personal injury compensation.<\/p>\n

Whether you can win a claim or not will normally come down to whether whoever is in charge of the area has breached their duty of care for you. The duty of care they should take is to take all reasonable steps to prevent someone from slipping on the premises. So reasonable steps could be many things, such as:<\/p>\n