Snow removal company is late in removing snow, slip and fall

[Daniel L.]

Hello everybody,

I think I might be possibly encountering my first slip and fall case at a small strip center. So we have this company that we are contracted to do the snow removal and but earlier today one of my tenant's customers apparently had a slip and went to the hospital in an ambulance. 

While I'm not sure a lawsuit is guaranteed to be coming, with ambulance chasers of these days I will not be suprised if it occurs. 

Basically I'm wondering if there is anything that I can do at this moment to best prepare if a lawsuit does come my way. Also my snow removal company was late, arriving at 1pm while the slip and fall occurred during the morning. 

[Matt Clark]

The first thing I would do is document everything while it's fresh: weather conditions, time, location, contact info, agreement in place with contractor, video of incident if available, time you received notice, copy of the tenant's incident/accident report, etc.  Hopefully you won't need any of the info, but now is the time to gather it.