Wettermark Keith has a Montgomery office on Zelda Road and has recovered compensation in more than 50,000 personal injury cases.
If you or a loved one was hurt on someone else's property anywhere in the River Region – from downtown Montgomery to Cloverdale, the Garden District to EastChase, Pike Road to Prattville, or Wetumpka to Millbrook – our attorneys are ready to hear your story. Call us today or complete the form to start your free case review.
Montgomery's stores, parking lots, and apartment complexes see thousands of slip, trip, and fall injuries each year – and property owners' insurers move fast to shift blame to the victim.
A spilled drink left unmopped on the tile at The Shoppes at EastChase food court. A cracked curb in an Eastern Boulevard parking lot that catches a heel after dark. A missing handrail on the back stairs of an apartment complex off the East South Boulevard. An unlit stairwell in a downtown office near Dexter Avenue. Any of these can put you in Baptist Medical Center South or Jackson Hospital with a broken hip, a concussion, or worse — and within hours, the property's risk adjuster is already building a file to say you weren't watching where you were going.
Premises liability claims are not straightforward negligence cases.
Alabama law treats visitors differently depending on whether you were an invitee (a customer or tenant's guest), a licensee (a social guest), or a trespasser — and each status carries a different duty of care for the property owner. Winning your case means proving the owner knew, or should have known, about the hazard and failed to fix it or warn you. That requires fast action: surveillance video from the store, maintenance logs, prior incident reports at that same Montgomery County location, and witness statements before memories fade.
Alabama law puts injured visitors in one of the country's harshest legal landscapes.
The statute of limitations for most premises liability claims is two years from the date of injury under Ala. Code § 6-2-38. More dangerously, Alabama is one of only a handful of states that still enforces pure contributory negligence — if a Montgomery County jury finds you even 1% at fault for not seeing the hazard, you recover nothing. Adjusters know this rule, and they routinely call injured visitors within days hoping for a recorded statement that pins any sliver of blame on you before you've talked to a lawyer.
How our Montgomery attorneys build your premises liability case.
Our team acts quickly to lock down evidence before the property is cleaned up or video is overwritten. We will:
- Send spoliation letters the same day to preserve surveillance footage, incident reports, and maintenance logs at the Montgomery property.
- Pull prior complaints and code violations filed with the City of Montgomery or Montgomery County to show a pattern of neglect.
- Identify every liable party — property owner, property manager, cleaning contractor, or security company — that may carry coverage for your injuries.
- Retain engineers or safety experts to document cracked pavement, code-violating stairs, inadequate lighting, or negligent security conditions.
- File and, if necessary, litigate in the Montgomery County Circuit Court (15th Judicial Circuit) — building a case designed to beat Alabama's 1% contributory-negligence trap.
We pursue the full range of damages Alabama law allows — medical bills, future care, lost wages, diminished earning capacity, and pain and suffering — so you can focus on healing while we focus on the case.
