[KassJust]

I was injured at my local Wal-mart store. When I stepped onto the esculator to go up to the next floor of the store, I fell and was dragged nearly half way up the esculator and turned upside down before someome finally hit a stop button on the esculator. I was scratched up and down my back, bruised on my legs arm and back and reinjured discs in my lower and upper back that I have previously had surgical procedures on. Several employees of Wal-mart and many customers witnessed the accident. The store manager filed an accident report. I had to go to the emergency room the following morning. What should I do next?

[ScottGem]

Contact the manager about the status of the report. Ask where to submit your medical bills. If Wal Mart denies the claim, you will need to retain an attorney.

[twinkiedooter]

What should you do next? Contact a good personal injury attorney now before submitting anything to WalMart as the attorney will handle WalMart for you so you get your medical bills paid and maybe some pain and suffering for you. If you submit the bills to WalMart they will probably be misplaced indefinitely.

Get a copy of what the store wrote up regarding your accident and get the witnesses names and phone numbers.

[Fr_Chuck]

Why did you fall, do you have a walking issue? Was there something about the moving device that was unsafe,

But in general you ask them how they are going to pay the bills, and see if they will pay your bills.

A good law suit with very little damages, will often only get an attorney money, I have seen cases where after you pay 1/3 of what you win to the attorney, you don't even have enough to pay the doctors, who would have all been paid, if you had just let the store pay them.

[ScottGem]

What should you do next? Contact a good personal injury attorney now before submitting anything to WalMart as the attorney will handle WalMart for you so you get your medical bills paid and maybe some pain and suffering for you. If you submit the bills to WalMart they will probably be misplaced indefinitely.

Get a copy of what the store wrote up regarding your accident and get the witnesses names and phone numbers.

This is not only bad advice it's irresponsible advice and defamatory. There is plenty of time to contact an attorney if Wal Mart denies or delays the claim. And if an attorney becomes involved, the attorney will take a cut and the OP may not get all her bills paid.

Yes the OP should get a copy of the report. And keep copies of everything she submits. But retaining an lawyer is premature at this point.

[Fr_Chuck]

I will agree, Walmart has a good record of paying real and valid claims. Sadly too many people want to sue over nothing, or sue over something that is their fault.