Falling From A Roof While Pregnant: What You Can Sue For
Dish networks that provide cable TV often have some unnatural expectations of homeowners. When you decide to cancel your service, they request that you retrieve the receiver box and dish from its location and return it to the company. I does not dawn on them that it is next to impossible in a few situations for homeowners to accomplish this.
When you are pregnant, do not have anyone to help you because you are a single mother, you do not own a ladder, and the dish is located on the roof, this expectation is completely unreasonable. If you or your unborn baby are hurt in a fall because the dish TV company would not listen to reason, here is what you can sue for.
Compensation for Medical Expenses for You and Your Unborn Child
Falling from the roof while trying to retrieve proprietary company property is dangerous enough for the average person. Combined with your pregnant state, you would be injuring not one, but two people. Thus, a personal injury lawyer would probably advise you to sue for medical compensation and care for you and your unborn child. If the fall also causes immediate birth or abortion of your child, you can sue for the long-term care needed to help your baby/child as well.
Trauma Care
Long-term care and trauma care could last months, even years, for you and your child. Your baby could be born or abort right after you hit the ground, and you could end up in a coma. Hopefully, you have a family member that will sue in your stead in order to have the money to keep you on life support and help your baby.
Loss of Life
If your fall causes your baby to abort or to be born and then it dies, you can sue for loss of life. Even though the accident occurred on your property, the fact remains that you tried repeatedly to reason with the dish network company by telling them you could not go up there to retrieve their property. You have records of several calls placed to their company to tell them that you would not pay the bill for the property and that you are completely unable to retrieve it based on your current condition. By refusing to send a technician to your home to retrieve company property, they put you and your unborn child in serious danger.
When that child dies, the company is at least partially responsible. They should compensate you for the loss. A personal injury lawyer, such as Palmetto Injury Lawyers, can argue for a loss of life compensation package because of this incident.
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