Premises Liability

Premises liability claims allege that a property had an injury-causing “defect” that the property holder knew or should have known about. YA Group assesses the standards of care for the property in dispute and evaluates the claimed injuries to determine if they are consistent with the claimed incident. Our highly qualified experts include engineers, architects and biomechanics who possess advanced training and experience to perform detailed and thorough analysis of slips, trips, and stairway falls, falls from elevation, and object impact cases.

Our biomechanical and premises liability experts don’t just conduct premises liability “on the side,” we are active on the professional committees and advisory panels that write and revise the guides, standards, and codes. Our professionals conduct research, build tools, and testify about our findings in court. Years of research, testing and experience forms the basis of our team’s knowledge of the governing codes and standards of care.

Our multidisciplinary approach includes researching the jurisdictionally adopted standards of care, performing site inspections (if warranted) with walkway friction analyses, 3D scanning and illumination surveys, biomechanical and injury consistency analyses, digital visualizations and photogrammetry, and, if requested, Rule 26 reports and testimony. Our investigations consider a wide range of potential contributing factors including: