Corrao & Robles Law expands slip-and-fall and snow injury work

Warwick-based Corrao & Robles Law is broadening its personal injury practice to focus more heavily on slip-and-fall, trip-and-fall, and snow-and-ice cases across Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The move targets a common source of winter and property-maintenance injuries and puts greater emphasis on early evidence preservation in premises-liability claims.

Why it matters: - Slip-and-fall and snow-and-ice cases can involve serious injuries, including fractures, head injuries, shoulder injuries, and back injuries. - The expanded focus gives injured customers, tenants, visitors, and guests another option for claims tied to unsafe conditions on commercial, retail, and residential properties. - Premises-liability cases often turn on whether a property owner knew, or should have known, about a hazard and had time to fix it.

What happened: - Warwick-based Corrao & Robles Law expanded its personal injury practice with a stronger emphasis on slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall cases in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. - The practice also covers injuries caused by snow and ice during colder months. - The firm’s work includes claims tied to unsafe conditions on commercial, retail, and residential properties. - Corrao & Robles Law handles personal injury matters on a contingency fee basis.

The details: - Slip-and-fall hazards can include wet floors without warning signs, cracked sidewalks, broken stair railings, loose carpeting, uneven walkways, and other unsafe property conditions. - Fall and winter weather can add risks through wet leaves, rain, early frost, black ice, uncleared sidewalks, snow-covered parking lots, and refrozen meltwater near building entrances. - The firm handles cases involving stores, commercial buildings, apartment common areas, parking lots, sidewalks, stairways, and other exterior and interior areas. - Snow-and-ice injury claims can involve surfaces that were not properly cleared, maintained, or treated. - Rhode Island and Massachusetts property owners have a duty to reasonably address snow-and-ice hazards on their properties, including conditions created by natural weather events. - These cases can involve disputes over when a storm ended, how long a dangerous condition existed, and whether reasonable maintenance steps were taken. - Black ice can be hard to see and can repeatedly form in the same areas because of drainage patterns, shade, temperature changes, and foot traffic. - Prior incident reports, maintenance records, and complaints may help show whether a property owner knew about a recurring problem. - Liability may extend beyond the property owner when third-party snow-removal contractors are involved. - Corrao & Robles Law investigates potentially responsible parties, including property owners, property managers, businesses occupying the premises, and snow-removal contractors. - Relevant evidence may include surveillance footage, maintenance and cleaning records, snow-removal contracts and service logs, weather data, incident reports, photographs, and witness statements. - Some commercial properties keep surveillance footage for only a limited period, making early evidence preservation important. - Snow, ice, spills, and other hazardous conditions can also disappear or be corrected soon after an incident. - The firm’s broader personal injury practice also includes car accidents, pedestrian accidents, dog bites, serious injury claims, and wrongful death cases.

Between the lines: - The expansion appears aimed at a high-volume injury category where small details about notice, maintenance, and timing can decide liability. - The focus on evidence preservation signals that video footage, weather records, and maintenance logs can matter as much as the injury itself. - The added attention to snow-and-ice claims reflects the legal complexity of winter hazards in the Northeast, especially when multiple parties share maintenance responsibilities.

What's next: - Injured people in Rhode Island and Massachusetts seeking to pursue slip-and-fall or snow-and-ice claims can bring those matters to Corrao & Robles Law. - The firm is likely to lean on early investigation, documentation, and preservation of records in future premises-liability cases. - Corrao & Robles Law continues to represent clients in criminal and military defense matters as well as personal injury cases.

The bottom line: - Corrao & Robles Law is positioning its personal injury practice around winter hazards and unsafe property conditions, where fast evidence collection can be critical to a claim.