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slip and fall cases are a bit of a
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different animal they generally occur in
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stores department stores supermarkets uh
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sometimes hotel casinos with marble
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floors there’s quite a few slip and fall
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cases and I’ve handled hundreds of them
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in my career one of the first things you
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do is you place the store on notice or
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the hotel on notice of the fall and you
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tell them they need to preserve any and
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all evidence of the fall and that means
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photographs statements of witnesses and
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most importantly surveillance video
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anyone who’s lived in Las Vegas for any
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length of time knows that virtually all
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hotels have surveillance videos all over
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the hotel so if there’s a fall there
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should be surveillance video showing the
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fall and that often answers questions
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most importantly about what was on the
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floor that caused the fall and how long
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was it on the floor before the fall
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occurred those are crucial questions in
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litigation which can be addressed by
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surveillance video but only if the
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attorney puts the offending uh defendant
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on notice whether it be the supermarket
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the hotel puts them on notice right away
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I want you to preserve the surveillance
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video the statements and the evidence
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because if you don’t do that it will be
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lost