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Accident when shopping at a store

Asked on Feb 17th, 2015 on Personal Injury - New Hampshire
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I stopped at a business to buy at item, when a large section of the roof collapsed. I jumped out of the way, and was not harmed. My wife was also under the roof, and escaped injury by luck only. I didn't know this going in, but the store had a crew working on the roof at the time, which was the "straw that broke the camel's back" so to speak. I feel that the business should have closed off the area and not allowed patrons under the roof while it was worked on, or until deemed safe. If someone slower than me, or hard of hearing, they would have been killed. Do I have any sort of position to sue the store for negligence?
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Plaintiffs Personal Injury Attorney serving Manchester, NH at Nixon, Vogelman, Barry, Slawsky & Simoneau P.A.
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Thankfully, neither of you were injured. And it is that lack of injuries that means you don't have a lawsuit. In addition to negligence, you need to prove damages, that the negligence caused some real harm. Consider yourself fortunate that you have no case. Any thought that fear is compensable is very attenuated.
Answered on Feb 20th, 2015 at 4:24 AM

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