When you are hurt on property that belongs to someone else, a race starts that day, and the owner is the only one who heard the starting gun. The camera that recorded what happened is already recording over itself, the incident report was written by the owner’s employee to protect the business, and the broken step gets fixed by morning. I wrote this book for the person at the kitchen table who just got hurt in a store, a parking lot, an apartment complex, or a neighbor’s yard: what to do in the first days while the evidence still exists, what you actually have to prove and why that surprises everyone, and when to bring in a lawyer. Plain English, no law degree required.

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• Hurt on someone else’s property in Florida? I will send you a copy free. Use the form below, put your mailing address in the message, and a copy goes out to you. No strings, no obligation.
• Want it faster? The paperback ($17.95) and Kindle ($7.99) editions are available on Amazon.

What is inside

• The evidence that deletes itself: the camera loop, the sweep logs, the incident report you will never be handed, and how a preservation letter stops the clock
• The notice fight at the center of every fall case: proving what the owner knew, or should have known, before you ever got there
• Dog bites and Florida’s strict liability rule, including the special care the law takes with children
• Attacked where you were supposed to be safe: when an apartment complex, a bar, or a parking lot owes you protection from crime
• The government property trap: the notice you must send before you can sue the city, the county, or the state at all
• The honest truth that many of these cases cannot be settled with a phone call, and what filing a lawsuit actually unlocks

Twenty-two chapters in six parts, a plain-language glossary, a first-seven-days checklist, a what-to-photograph-and-preserve guide, a list of questions to ask any premises lawyer, and twenty full-page diagrams, 344 pages in all. It covers the ordinary fall and the hard ones too: the attack nobody stopped, the dog that bit a child, and the injury on government property.

Vet the author the way you would vet a lawyer: I represent injured people across Tampa Bay, I am a member of the National Association of Premises Liability Attorneys, and I handled hundreds of cases as an Assistant Public Defender in Tampa’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. I still do both, injury and criminal defense, and the same fight runs under each: one person standing against an institution that owns the building, the cameras, and every record that matters.

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Tell me where to send it. You get the digital edition to read the moment you submit, and the paperback follows in the mail, free for Florida injury victims, no strings.

Questions people ask

Is a fall on someone else’s property automatically a case?

No, and the book says so plainly. There is nothing automatic here, and there is no no-fault coverage like the kind that follows a car crash. The owner owes you a reasonably safe place, and the law makes you prove the owner broke that promise, which usually means proving what the owner knew about the hazard, or should have known, before you ever got there. The book shows what separates the cases that can be won from the ones that cannot, so that decision gets made on the facts and never on the owner’s say-so.

What should I do in the first days after getting hurt?

Get medical care first, always. Then report the injury before you leave if you still can, photograph the exact spot and your shoes, get the names of employees and witnesses, and say little. The most important evidence in these cases belongs to the property owner and starts disappearing on a schedule nobody tells you about, so the first days matter more here than in almost any other kind of injury case. The book’s opening chapters walk through this step by step.

Does the book cover more than falls?

Yes. It covers slips, trips, and falls, dog bites, criminal attacks that better security should have prevented, injuries at a friend’s home or a pool, injuries to children, and the special rules for government property. If you were hurt on property that belongs to someone else, this book was written for you.

Is the book really free?

For Florida injury victims, yes. Request it with the form above and the digital edition arrives the moment you submit, with the paperback following in the mail. No strings and no obligation. If you would rather buy it, the paperback and Kindle editions are available on Amazon.

Will the book tell me whether I have a case?

It will help you understand the questions a lawyer would ask, but no book can answer that for your specific facts, and I make no promises about any outcome, because every case is different. If you want a real answer, call or text me at (727) 761-4318 and we will talk it through. The first conversation is free, and you talk to me.