Oklahoma City Premises Liability Lawyer

Were you recently injured because of unsafe conditions on someone else’s property in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma? Call McIntyre Law at (405) 917-5200 now for a free consultation. The property owner may be responsible for your medical treatment and lost wages, and our experienced Oklahoma City premises liability lawyers can help you maximize your recovery.

We’re award-winning Oklahoma trial attorneys with a proven ability to take on powerful corporations and win life-changing case results for our clients. Backed by 90+ years of combined experience, we’ve successfully recovered over half a billion in settlements and jury awards. Don’t let a property owner off the hook when they’ve made a mistake. Count on our top-rated team to help you get the accountability you deserve.

Why Choose McIntyre Law for Help With a Premises Liability Lawsuit in Oklahoma City, Ok

Premises liability claims can be challenging to prove, especially when property owners and their insurance companies dispute responsibility or move quickly to limit their liability. At McIntyre Law, our Oklahoma City personal injury lawyers have the experience and resources to investigate these cases thoroughly and pursue the compensation our clients deserve.

Clients in Oklahoma City, OK, trust us because:

We’re respected and feared litigators with a multi-million-dollar track record of success.
We’re committed to providing personalized representation that ensures each client knows they’re seen and heard, while also investing the resources needed to take on the most powerful companies and insurers in Oklahoma.
Premises liability litigation is complicated, and we know when to bring in experts and specialists to ensure you have the right people on your side to help you make the most of your fight for compensation.
We’ve received recognition from prestigious organizations, including Expertise.com, Super Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers, The Injury Board, and the American Association for Justice.

The sooner you call our office for help, the sooner we can investigate your case, preserve valuable evidence, and begin to build a claim that proves the property owner should be held accountable for your injuries. Your first consultation with an Oklahoma City personal injury attorney is free, so contact us for help today.

Understanding Oklahoma Premises Liability Law

Premises liability laws require owners of property to maintain their premises in a reasonably safe condition. The goal is to protect invited guests and visitors from suffering unnecessary and avoidable harm. When a guest gets hurt because the owner is negligent in maintaining the premises, it can result in a premises liability lawsuit.

How can you establish that a property owner is negligent? Ultimately, it depends on the reason why the visitor was there in the first place. Oklahoma law distinguishes three different types of visitors: invitees, licensees, and trespassers. Each is owed a different duty of care by the property owner.

Invitees

Invitees are owed the highest duty of care. These are individuals who enter public property or someone else’s property for a business-related reason. Because the property owner enjoys some benefit from the invitee’s visit, they have a heightened responsibility to protect the invitee from harm.

Generally speaking, property owners should conduct regular safety inspections, make repairs when they have actual or constructive knowledge of a hazard, and/or warn about known threats to an invitee’s safety.

Licensees

The duty of care owed to licensees is less intense. Owners might not have to conduct regular inspections, but they are expected to do repairs when they know (or should know) a hazard exists and provide adequate warnings of safety hazards to protect a licensee.

Trespassers

Property owners in Oklahoma don’t have a duty to protect trespassers from safety hazards on their property. Trespassers enter the property without consent, which means they assume the risk of injury if they enter.

There’s one major exception: children who trespass because of an attractive nuisance. Owners have a duty to protect kids who would be enticed to enter their land without permission if there’s something like a swimming pool, heavy machinery, or a tree house on the property.

Owners aren’t expected to ensure a visitor’s safety. Instead, they’re expected to take reasonable steps to prevent foreseeable harm. Anything less can be considered negligence and result in liability if someone gets hurt.

Types of Premises Liability Cases We Handle

McIntyre Law represents clients in all types of premises liability cases in Oklahoma City, including:

Swimming pool accidents
Slip and fall accidents
Falls from heights
Dog bites
Elevator and escalator accidents
Sidewalk accidents
Amusement park accidents
Building collapse accidents
Fires and explosions
Negligent security
Assault

Experience matters when you’re pitted against a powerful property owner and their insurance company. Collectively, our premises liability attorneys in Oklahoma City have been fighting for the injured for 90+ years. Over the course of our careers, we’ve leveraged more than half a billion dollars in life-changing monetary awards for clients just like you.

We know what you’re up against and how crucial a win is when your life has been turned upside down. Contact us for help today.

How Much Is My Premises Liability Claim Worth?

It depends on a lot of factors that are very specific to your situation, including:

The type and extent of your physical injuries
Whether you’re expected to suffer from some level of permanent impairment or disability
Changes in your ability to work – now and in the future
How the accident and resulting injuries have changed your quality of life
Claims that you share responsibility for your accident
The property owner’s insurance coverage and applicable policy limits
Your age and life expectancy

Your claim’s value will depend largely on your financial costs and the harder-to-value struggles you experience on your road to recovery. The more seriously you’ve been injured in an accident on someone else’s property, the more money you might expect to recover when your premises liability case settles.

What Damages Can Be Awarded in Premises Liability Cases?

As the plaintiff in a premises liability lawsuit in Oklahoma, you’ll be able to pursue economic damages and non-economic damages for:

Current and future medical bills
Rehabilitation and therapy costs
Diminished earning capacity
Temporary lost wages
Disability
Long-term care and assistance
Property damage
Out-of-pocket expenses
Pain and suffering
Loss of enjoyment of life
Emotional distress
Chronic pain
Disfigurement and scarring

Punitive damages can also be awarded in certain circumstances, though they are rare.

Can Shared Fault Affect My Premises Liability Settlement?

Yes. Oklahoma’s modified comparative negligence doctrine applies to premises liability cases. Under the law, damages in a lawsuit can be reduced if you’re assigned 50% or less of the blame for an accident on another party’s property. The reduction is proportionate to fault. If you’re assigned 10 percent of the blame, your damages would be reduced by 10 percent in value.

If your shared fault is greater than half, you lose the right to recover compensation from the property owner, even if they were also negligent in some respect.

What Does It Cost To Pursue a Premises Liability Lawsuit?

Nothing up front. Nothing out of your own pocket. Our premises liability attorneys in Oklahoma City represent clients on a contingency fee basis. We don’t get paid until we successfully recover a settlement or win a verdict for you at trial. Once the check clears, our attorney’s fees are deducted from that financial award.

If we don’t win your premises liability case, you pay nothing at all.

Does Oklahoma Have a Statute of Limitations for Premises Liability Cases?

Oklahoma has a two-year statute of limitations that applies to most premises liability lawsuits.

There are some exceptions, especially when a premises liability claim involves a government agency. Under the Oklahoma Government Tort Claims Act (OGTCA), you must provide written notice of your claim within one year of the date you’re injured on government property.

If you miss this notice deadline, you lose the ability to hold the government accountable for unsafe conditions that caused you to get hurt or suffer the wrongful death of a loved one.

Call Our Experienced Oklahoma City Premises Liability Lawyers for a Free Case Review

Property owners in Oklahoma City, OK, are expected to keep their premises safe. When they ignore this responsibility, they have to be held accountable if someone is injured or killed as a result. McIntyre Law is here to help you fight for the financial justice you deserve in the wake of a serious accident.

Our Oklahoma City premises liability attorneys are skilled litigators with 90+ years of combined experience. We know the unique laws and safety regulations that are likely to affect litigation, understand which evidence can be most helpful as we build your claim, and aren’t afraid to go toe-to-toe with the companies that will try to stand between you and a meaningful recovery.