Legal Question in Personal Injury in Minnesota

I stepped on a piece of metal about the size of a nail while picking up my vehicle in the lot of a towing company. It punctured my shoe and went into the arch of my foot about an inch and a half. An attendant saw this happen and the first/only thing he said was "That piece of metal must have blown over from the lot next door ; they work on all sorts of things over there." He did not offer to help me walk, or a napkin for the bleeding, nothing. I sat on the ground and pulled it out of my foot and then asked my brother to drive me to the hospital (no one at the company knows I went to a hospital.) I received a tetanus shot and antibiotics to kill infection. it did become infected and I missed a week of work and had to hire help around my house and to care for my daughter. Does my case have merit? I haven't yet contacted a lawyer. What can/should I sue for?


Asked on 8/19/09, 1:45 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Maury Beaulier612.240.8005 Minnesota Lawyers

I think it woul be very difficult to recover on a case like that. the property owner is only negigent for failing to take care of a defective conition that they knew aboiut or shoudl have known about. Removing every piece of reubbish from a lot would require extraordinary vigilance. That makes the causation factor relatively weak.

Second, you can only sue for actual damages, meaning your medical expenses. The damages are so limited, it is unlikely to warrant a lawyers involvement.

You may wish to negotiate with the property owner directly.

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Answered on 8/27/09, 11:40 pm


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