Injuries caused by slipping, tripping and falling.

Did you slip, trip or fall and cause an injury that was someone else's fault?

Injuries caused by slipping, tripping and falling.

They may seem like trivial incidents, but they can cause numerous accidents, injuries , and consequently personal injury damages . Slipping, tripping, or falling can happen at work, at someone else's home, on the street, in a shop, or anywhere else. Often, these types of accidents are referred to as "bad luck" or "coincidence." But that is far from always the case! For often, it turns out that someone other than yourself is legally responsible. And therefore liable.

Did you suffer an injury due to your slip, trip, or fall, and was it someone else's fault? Then you are entitled to compensation for your personal injury. But when is someone else liable, and when not?

Slipping, tripping or falling at work

Every year, many employees suffer unnecessary injuries due to slips, trips, or falls. These injuries can occur on materials, tools, parts, spilled oil and grease, or other debris left behind on the work floor or workspace.

The Working Conditions Act stipulates that your employer is formally legally obliged to "organize the work in such a way that it has no adverse effect" on your safety and health.

In other words: regardless of your own "role," your employer is "primarily and ultimately responsible" for safety in your workplace. This includes slips, trips, and falls!

So, if you suffer an injury at work due to a slip, trip, or fall, your employer is almost always liable for your injuries, even if your employer could not – in fact and practically speaking – do anything about it.

Want to know more about your employer's liability for workplace accidents? You can read more here.

Slipping, tripping or falling outside on the street

Did you slip, trip, or fall on the street and sustain an injury as a result? You may be entitled to compensation for your personal injury.

The "road manager", such as the Municipality, Province, Water Board or Rijkswaterstaat, can be liable for your injury and personal injury damages.

A road manager is legally obligated to ensure adequate and proper maintenance of roads, overpasses, cycle paths, and sidewalks. They must also ensure that no dangerous situations arise on the roads. If they fail to do so, they may be liable for your personal injury and must compensate you.

Unfortunately, this is a complex legal process. The Dutch courts, legally speaking, grant the road authority considerable leeway to avoid liability. And the road authority's insurers, of course, are taking full advantage of this leeway.

If you would like to know more about road authority liability, you can read more here.

Slipping, tripping or falling "at someone else's place"

Slipping, tripping, or falling can happen—unfortunately—in many ways. It can happen in someone's home or anywhere else you're present.

If your injury occurred because someone failed to change a potentially dangerous situation, failed to perform sufficient maintenance, or failed to clean up properly for some other reason, then they are liable for your personal injury.

Whether this is because:

you did not see certain objects on or above the floor and did not expect them to be there
the floor you walked on was too smooth or bumpy under the circumstances
you were unexpectedly confronted with obstacles that were not clearly visible
a hatch or window was unexpectedly open somewhere
a floor was rotten or
something came loose and fell on you.

In all these cases, the owner or occupier of the building—or formally called the "building"—is liable for your personal injury. This is stipulated in Article 6:174 of the Dutch Civil Code. The owner or occupier of the "building" is always liable, with a few exceptions.

Legal assistance for personal injury due to slipping, tripping or falling

Especially in cases of personal injury due to slipping, tripping, or falling, there is often dispute about liability. This means who is financially responsible for your injuries and personal injury damages.

Your employer or the owner/property owner—or rather, their insurer—will almost always make a fuss about liability. Often, this is simply "to get a feel for it." And because they think you don't know enough about the matter to challenge it.

In these situations, it's often wise to legal assistance from a personal injury firm. This way, you can be sure you'll get what you're entitled to. And you'll know there's someone who's only looking out for your interests. It's reassuring, especially when you know our assistance is always completely free.

Free legal assistance for personal injury

In the Netherlands, your legal costs are part of your total personal injury damages. In other words, the other party must pay not only your additional costs, loss of income, and non-pecuniary damages , but also, separately, the costs of the personal injury firm you hired (i.e., our costs). This effectively makes the assistance of a personal injury firm FREE.

A legal requirement is that the other party acknowledges liability for your personal injury. And with personal injury resulting from slipping, tripping, or falling, that's often where the problems lie. Unlike, for example, a traffic accident, establishing liability often takes a long time and requires considerable effort.

At Van der Toorn Personal Injury, you're always entitled to free legal assistance. We'll assess your chances of receiving personal injury compensation upfront. If we both believe the other party is at fault and you can prove it with us, we'll get to work for you. We'll also provide you with a clear cost guarantee. If liability is ultimately not established, or if our costs are not fully reimbursed for other reasons, that's our business risk, not yours.

And if we can't immediately assess your chances of receiving personal injury compensation during our initial contact, we'll ask you to research a few things and take some photos of the accident scene. We'll then immediately see what we can do for you. Because clarity is paramount.

Fallen or tripped and need advice?

Have you slipped, tripped, or fallen due to someone else's fault and need personal injury advice? Feel free to contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation. You can reach us via the form on our website, by email, or by phone. We can even chat—whatever works best for you.

We'll give you honest and clear advice, without any obligation. Afterward, you can decide for yourself what you want to do with it.

What customers ask

Is your help really free for me?

Absolutely, our help is truly FREE.

Your counterparty is also obligated to reimburse your legal costs (i.e., our firm's fees). This is stipulated by law (Section 6:96 of the Dutch Civil Code).

upfront written cost guarantee with a clear explanation. This also clearly states what you can expect from us and what we can expect from you.

We guarantee that the liable party will reimburse our costs. If they don't, it's our business risk. You'll never receive a bill from us. We promise!

Still unsure? Just contact us. We'd be happy to explain how our cost guarantee works.

If you'd like to learn more about our FREE personal injury assistance, click here. Clarity is paramount!

When can I claim personal injury damages?

You can claim damages for personal injury due to the fault of another person injury (been injured)

Personal injury can be caused by, for example:

In addition, you may think of injuries sustained during:

organized trip
unsafe product or
fall at someone else's home, in a shop or on the street

It's best not to wait too long to file a personal injury claim. It's best to do so immediately after the accident.

Even if it is not yet clear at that time what your injury and its financial consequences consist of.

However, someone else must liable and must have taken out liability insurance for this (AVP/AVB/WA).

However, even if you caused the accident yourself, you can sometimes still claim compensation for personal injury. For example, if you SVI (Passenger Injury Insurance) or SVO (Opzittende Inschadende).

Are you unsure whether and when you are entitled to personal injury compensation?

Don't hesitate to contact us now for a free, no-obligation consultation. It's free , and you'll know exactly where you stand. Afterward, you can decide for yourself what to do with our advice.

What injuries do you treat?

We can actually help you with all types of personal injury

Van der Toorn Personal Injury can help you with all types of injuries. We specialize in handling "serious personal injuries," such as:

brain injury (ABI)
spinal cord injury
burns
dystrophy
bone fractures and
cosmetic injury.

But of course, we are also very happy to be there for you if someone else has sustained an injury. Such as neck injuries, whiplash, back injuries, bruises, sprains, dog bites, temporary injuries, and you name it.

We cannot help with all types of personal injury

The only thing we cannot help you with is personal injury caused by:

violence
medical errors and/or
situations of abuse.

In that situation, we will of course refer you to a party that is specialized in this.

Always request free, no-obligation advice on personal injury claims

Do you have questions about your personal injury? Or are you unsure if we're the right place for you?

Please do not hesitate to ask us for a complete and free, no-obligation personal injury claim consultation.

When should I contact you?

You don't have to! But it's in your best interest to as soon as possible contact

Only then can you be certain that there is someone who thinks solely of your interests . Because that is our job: thinking of *your* interests.

But what is: as quickly as possible?

Sometimes an insurance company will contact you very shortly after the accident. They'll ask how you're doing and also ask for all sorts of other information.

You cannot know whether that insurer is asking “too many questions” from a legal perspective. About your health before the accident and which doctors you visited. You would rather avoid that, wouldn't you? So never wait too long to engage a personal injury firm.

It's also likely that you'll quickly incur significant expenses . Or your incomemay disappear. We'll handle the initial damage payments from the other party. Then you can focus on your recovery.

Would you like to know what's best for you? Don't hesitate to without obligation us

We'll give you right away advice clear. Then you can decide for yourself what to do with it.

If we think we can help you, we will let you know right away.

At the same time, we guarantee that our legal assistance completely free of charge .

To learn more about our FREE personal injury assistance services, click here.

What personal injury compensation amounts am I entitled to?

The personal injury compensation amounts you are entitled to are:

Allowances for additional assistance, such as:

household help, shopping, taking children to school, etc.
help in the garden and
help with the maintenance and painting of your home.

In addition, your personal injury may have consequences for your income, such as:

income that is not fully paid (self-employed person, temporary worker, zero-hour contract, etc.)
no more irregular hours allowance
no longer being able to work overtime
missed promotions and
missed pension accrual

Finally, you can consider other equally important personal injury compensation amounts, such as:

Study delay
Reintegration costs for guidance to other work
Costs associated with admission to a hospital or rehabilitation center
Travel expenses
Medical expenses
Non-pecuniary damages
Economic vulnerability
Statutory interest
Furthermore, all costs that you would not have incurred without the accident…
For example, the wages you did not receive because you could not go to work.
Gasoline because you had to go to the hospital or the physiotherapist.
Medicines that were covered by your deductible.

In addition, you are always entitled to compensation for pain and suffering, also known as non-material damages.

This is compensation for "loss of enjoyment of life." Your damages should compensate you for your grief, pain, and anything else that might have made you less happy than before the accident.

Unfortunately, Dutch law is not generous in awarding damages for pain and suffering. Therefore, the amounts awarded in the Netherlands are not considered "fair enough.".

If you'd like to learn more about non-pecuniary damages, click here. If you'd like to learn more about personal injury damages, click here.

Calculating non-pecuniary damages

Calculating non-pecuniary damages:

You are always entitled to compensation for pain and suffering. This is the "non-pecuniary component" of your personal injury compensation.

What is non-pecuniary damages?

Pain and suffering compensation is not in itself a “hard legal term”. It is compensation for damage that cannot be expressed in monetary terms.

So, everything that doesn't fall under additional costs or lost income. It's essentially compensation for your "mental damage.".

How to calculate non-pecuniary damages

People often ask us at the very beginning of their personal injury case how much compensation they are entitled to.

That question is actually impossible to answer. And any personal injury lawyer who claims otherwise is mistaken.

When can you calculate my non-pecuniary damages?

Your compensation for pain and suffering can only be definitively determined at the end of your personal injury case.

Only then will it be known what psychological consequences your injury has had and/or will have for you.

Because it is the psychological consequences that largely determine your compensation for non-pecuniary damages.

Important factors in calculating non-pecuniary damages

Important factors for calculating your non-pecuniary damages include:

the nature of your injury
the severity of your injury
your age
your gender
your level of consciousness
whether you will have permanent scars and where those scars are located
whether you have physical limitations that affect your quality of life
how much pain have you suffered and continue to suffer
how long your recovery period was and
whether you have recovered at all or whether there is permanent damage.

Indication calculation of non-pecuniary damages:

We cannot predict exactly how much your compensation for non-pecuniary damages will be.

What we can do is give you a general indication of the amount of your compensation for pain and suffering.

If this sounds appealing, contact us today for a free, honest consultation. Afterward, you can decide for yourself what to do with it.

We are happy to help you calculate and claim your compensation for pain and suffering and other personal injury damages, such as your additional costs and lost income.

And if you choose our legal assistance, we guarantee you in writing in advance that our assistance will always FREE .

Calculating non-pecuniary damages? Ask for advice! We're happy to help. Want to know more about calculating non-pecuniary damages? Click here.

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