Andrew Pickett Law represents individuals injured in serious slip and fall accidents in Melbourne, Florida and throughout surrounding Space Coast communities in Brevard County. Property owners have a legal responsibility to maintain safe premises for visitors and customers. When dangerous conditions lead to preventable falls, our experienced Melbourne slip and fall lawyers help injured victims pursue compensation for medical bills, lost income, and other damages.
Slip and Fall Lawyers Serving Melbourne, Florida
Slip and fall accidents can occur in a wide variety of locations throughout Melbourne and Brevard County, including grocery stores, retail businesses, restaurants, office buildings, hotels, and apartment complexes. Falls frequently occur due to hazardous conditions such as wet floors, uneven walkways, broken handrails, poor lighting, or unsafe stairways.
At Andrew Pickett Law, our legal team represents individuals injured in premises liability accidents when property owners fail to correct dangerous conditions. Our firm investigates the circumstances of each fall, gathers evidence regarding unsafe conditions, and works to hold negligent property owners accountable.
Compensation Available After a Fall on Unsafe Property
Slip and fall accidents can lead to serious injuries including fractures, head injuries, spinal damage, and other long-term medical complications. Our Melbourne injury attorneys help clients pursue compensation for:
- Emergency medical treatment and hospitalization
- Ongoing medical care and rehabilitation
- Lost wages and reduced earning capacity
- Pain and suffering
- Permanent disability or long-term injuries
- Wrongful death damages for families who have lost loved ones
Because property owners and insurance companies often dispute liability after a fall, having an experienced attorney can help ensure that evidence is preserved and your rights are protected throughout the legal process.
Why Clients Choose Andrew Pickett Law
- No legal fees unless we recover compensation
- Direct communication with an experienced premises liability attorney
- Strong advocacy against insurance companies and negligent property owners
- Local representation serving Melbourne and Brevard County
Critical Deadline: Florida’s Two-Year Negligence Law
If you were injured in a fall on someone else’s property, you must act decisively. Under Florida law (House Bill 837), the statute of limitations for personal injury claims based on negligence is two years from the exact date of the incident.
Waiting to secure legal representation can cripple your claim. Within months, surveillance video is recorded over, inspection and spill logs are overwritten, and the hazard that caused your fall is cleaned up or repaired. Even when a fall seems minor at the scene, internal or cognitive injuries can take weeks to surface. To protect your financial security, call a lawyer as soon as you are medically stable.
Frequently Asked Questions About Slip and Fall Claims
What should I do after a slip and fall accident in Melbourne?
After a slip and fall accident in Melbourne, you should seek medical attention immediately and report the incident to the property owner or manager. If possible, document the scene and the hazardous condition that caused the fall. It may also be helpful to speak with an attorney before discussing the accident with insurance representatives.
Who is responsible for a slip and fall injury?
Property owners and businesses have a legal duty to maintain reasonably safe premises. When they fail to repair hazards, clean dangerous conditions, or provide proper warnings, they may be held responsible for injuries that occur as a result.
What compensation can slip and fall victims recover?
Victims injured in slip and fall accidents may recover compensation for medical expenses, lost income, rehabilitation costs, pain and suffering, and other damages depending on the severity of the injuries and the circumstances of the accident.
Falls in shops and on public property: what decides these cases
Does it matter whether I slipped or tripped?
This is the most useful distinction in a Florida fall case and it is almost never explained. Falls caused by something on the floor — water, oil, spilled produce — are governed by a special statute that makes them hard to win. It requires you to prove the business knew about the substance, or that it had been there long enough that they should have.1
Falls caused by the building are not governed by that statute at all. A broken step, a missing handrail, risers of uneven height, a threshold with no marking, a walkway with no light. Those are ordinary negligence claims about a permanent condition, and there is no “how long was it there” question to answer, because it was always there.
So be precise about what your foot actually did. People say “I slipped” as a figure of speech, it goes into the incident report that way, and the harder statute gets applied to a claim that never needed it.
Why do so many fall claims fail?
Fall cases are harder in Florida than the internet suggests, and the reason is the notice requirement above. A shop is not liable because you fell in it. They are liable if they knew, or if the spill sat there long enough that a reasonable business would have found it — and proving how long a puddle had been on a floor, after the fact, is difficult.
What decides it is usually evidence that exists for a matter of days. Surveillance footage that shows the spill happening, and the twenty minutes before you walked into it. The inspection log with a gap in it. The name of the employee who walked past it twice. Many retail systems overwrite footage on a cycle measured in weeks, and some in days. A written request that the footage be preserved — sent immediately, to the store and to its head office — may do more for your case than anything else available to you in the first week, and you do not need a lawyer to send one.
Better said now than after the footage is gone. If it was never preserved and never logged, sometimes there is no case, and a firm that tells you otherwise for a year is spending your time.
What might the store argue I did wrong?
Fall cases turn on blame-sharing more than any other kind, because there is usually an argument that you should have seen it. Florida’s rule is unforgiving once your share passes half, so think about these before you give a statement, not after.
- “You were looking at your phone.” The question that answers it is whether the hazard was visible from your approach at all — clear liquid on a polished floor frequently is not, from any angle, to anyone.
- “You were wearing flip-flops.” Footwear matters far less than the surface. The real question is whether the floor still met its own slip-resistance rating once wet, which is a measurable thing.
- “There was a cone.” Where exactly, and did it cover the area you actually walked through? A cone at one end of an aisle may be no warning at all at the other.
- “You had already walked past that spot.” Only useful to them if the floor was in the same state both times, which in a spill case it usually was not.
What if I fell on city or county property?
A fall in a park, on a city sidewalk, in a county building or at a government office is a different procedure with a shorter fuse. The main Melbourne page covers the written notice requirement; what follows is where it actually has to go.
Neither the City of Melbourne nor Brevard County publishes a claim form. There is nothing to find, which is why people go looking and then give up. The notice is a letter you write.
- City of Melbourne — Human Resources and Risk Management, City Hall, 900 East Strawbridge Avenue, Melbourne FL 32901.2 No form, no claims email, no published instructions.
- Brevard County — Risk Management, 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera FL 32940.3
- Brevard County Sheriff’s Office is a separate body — 700 South Park Avenue, Titusville FL 32780.4
- Brevard Public Schools is separate again — Office of Risk Management, 2700 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera FL 32940.5 Note the number: 2700, not 2725.
Read this part twice. Brevard County’s own claims page tells members of the public to telephone Risk Management, and its online claims system is restricted to county employees.3 But the statute requires the claim to be presented in writing.6 A person who follows the county’s published instruction exactly, and only telephones, may have failed a condition the law treats as mandatory. Call if you want to. Then write, and send it by certified mail so you can prove the date it arrived.
References
- Fla. Stat. § 768.0755 — premises liability for injury from a transitory foreign substance in a business establishment; actual or constructive knowledge required. By its terms it governs transitory substances, not permanent conditions of the premises
- City of Melbourne, Human Resources and Risk Management, 900 East Strawbridge Avenue, Melbourne FL 32901; 321-608-7800. The city publishes no claim form or claims-intake instructions
- Brevard County Human Resources Office, Risk Management, 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera FL 32940; public claims line 321-633-2037. The county’s online claims application is restricted to county and constitutional-office employees
- Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, 700 South Park Avenue, Titusville FL 32780; non-emergency 321-264-5100
- School Board of Brevard County, Office of Risk Management, 2700 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera FL 32940
- Fla. Stat. § 768.28(6)(a)–(b) — the claim must be presented in writing to the appropriate agency; written notice and denial are conditions precedent to suit
Other Premises and Injury Cases We Handle
In addition to representing victims of slip and fall accidents, Andrew Pickett Law handles many other types of accident and injury cases throughout Melbourne and Brevard County, including:
- Car Accident Lawyers
- Truck Accident Lawyers
- Motorcycle Accident Lawyers
- Uber & Lyft Accident Lawyers
- Dog Bite Injury Lawyers
- Boating Accident Lawyers
- Wrongful Death Lawyers
- Catastrophic Injury Lawyers
Areas and Zip Codes Served From Our Melbourne Office
- 32901 – Downtown Melbourne / Crane Creek
- 32904 – West Melbourne
- 32934 – Wickham Park / North Melbourne
- 32935 – Eau Gallie / Croton Road Corridor
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