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Samuel Sutton
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’m extremely grateful to have Ashley Money representing me in my personal injury case. After my accident, I was dealing with a lot of uncertainty, stress, and questions about what would happen next. Ashley has been there for me throughout the process and has made me feel like I’m not going through it alone. She has been compassionate, patient, professional, and very understanding of everything I’ve been dealing with. She takes the time to listen to my concerns, answer my questions, and explain things to me in a way that I can understand. Whenever I’ve been unsure or overwhelmed, she has helped give me reassurance and guidance. My case is still ongoing, and Ashley continues to work with me and advocate for me. I really appreciate that she stays involved and continues to keep me informed rather than making me feel forgotten once the initial paperwork is done. I know these cases can take time, but having an attorney who genuinely listens, cares, and continues to stand by you makes a huge difference. I’m very thankful for Ashley and everything she has done for me so far, and I would absolutely recommend her to anyone who needs a personal injury attorney. ❤️
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Janet Meyer
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Angie Mose
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I originally called for intake, Neilen explained the entire process and was SO kind. Then Hillary was assigned to care for us. Every question, no matter how small, Hillary answered and worked through every detail. I could NEVER have gotten through this without Hillary and Lowe Law.
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Dana Hansen
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I've worked this a couple of the team members and they are all just so concerning about my health and how my pains on my healing process. Wonderful team members And Ashley was so patient with me throughout this hole proses I felt very comfortable with her in every aspect. Love her . She one super patient woman I give her a thumbs up
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Case Manager Felisha Abbott is a outstanding case manager she's awesome definitely gets the work done without any question I highly recommend LoweLawGroup they have an outstanding team . Thank you again . I would like to add Makenzie Page to the 5 star list as well she's has been very responsive and helping me understand the process I truly appreciate the lowe law group team for stepping up and making sure the client is in the loop of the process.

Slip and fall accidents happen in an instant and without warning. Many people, after a fall, end up dealing with long-lasting injuries. Sometimes, these simple accidents can be completely life-changing. 

If you were injured because of someone else’s negligence, it doesn’t matter whether it takes weeks, months, or years to recover. You shouldn’t have to suffer alone with expensive medical costs, lost wages, missed work, and a long, painful recovery. 

A slip and fall attorney in Cedar Rapids can fight for your rights and hold any liable parties accountable for their negligence.

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Anyone can potentially take a fall, but Cedar Rapids residents may be at higher risk than people in other parts of the country, thanks to Iowa’s long and icy winters. Importantly, these accidents aren’t strictly related to ice and snow. Other hazards, like poor lighting, broken stairs, wet floors, and parking lot hazards, can all contribute to fall injuries. 

Our Cedar Rapids Personal Injury Attorneys understand the aftermath of these kinds of accidents. We know the insurance company’s tactics to try to avoid paying on behalf of their negligent clients. We also know that by the time slip and fall survivors come to us, it is often because they know that someone else was responsible for their accident, but they need help proving the case. 

It’s not easy to challenge the well-funded legal entities that protect slip and fall defendants, but it’s something that we do every day. 

If you fell because of someone else’s careless negligence, we can join your fight for justice. The Lowe Law Group is here to stand alongside you and file a premises liability claim in Cedar Rapids on your behalf.

They Knew Better: Common Slip and Fall Hazards in Cedar Rapids

The state of Iowa requires property owners to keep their premises safe for customers, visitors, contractors, and others. This legal duty means that they must identify potential hazards and fix them promptly. Between identification and repair, they must also warn visitors of any hazards. 

Failing to do any of these steps may be considered a form of negligence. This is exactly how people get hurt. Most slip-and-fall accidents are preventable.

Winter Weather Hazards

Iowans are accustomed to brutal winters, but they often underestimate the fall risks that accompany this kind of weather. As ice accumulates on sidewalks, parking lots, and the entrances of buildings, the potential for fall risk increases. None of this should be a surprise to property owners. That means there is no excuse for failing to sand, salt, and adequately clear the pathways. Ignoring these problems is exactly how people get hurt! 

Indoor Maintenance Failures

Beyond winter hazards, you also have potential risks outside. No matter the season, it is possible to slip and fall inside a business, organization, school, government facility, hospital, or other building. Some of the common risks include mopped floors that are still wet but lack any warning signs, spills that get ignored by management, retailers that leave their aisles cluttered with merchandise, and property owners who neglect to fix broken tiles, worn-out carpeting, and poor lighting in stairways.

Structural Defects

Structural defects typically take more time to fix than a simple spill cleanup, but that only makes them more important to fix. Broken handrails, uneven pavement, crumbling steps, potholes in parking lots—none of these are uncommon scenarios for property owners, especially in older buildings. The problem arises when building owners fail to fix these issues. If they are aware of these structural defects and fail to address them, they may be liable for your injuries. 

Inadequate Warnings

If a property owner can’t immediately fix a hazard, they have to notify all visitors of the risk. A simple sign or barrier could prevent a fall with serious injuries, but too often, this basic precaution gets overlooked. 

 

The pattern that emerges from all of these hazards is that property owners know better, but they still sometimes choose to prioritize convenience or savings over your safety. When that happens, you need a fall injury lawyer in Iowa who can hold them accountable.

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Slip and Fall Injuries We Handle at Lowe Law Group

The injuries that occur when you take a serious spill are not minor bumps and bruises. They can be life-altering. The sudden and unexpected nature of these falls means that you often have little time to brace for impact, leading to devastating results. 

Common injuries from falls include: 

  • Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs)
  • Spinal cord injuries
  • Broken bones and fractures
  • Soft tissue injuries 
  • Skull fractures

Secondary injuries are commonplace, too. For example, if someone becomes immobilized because of their fall, that lack of mobility can lead to blood clots, atrophied muscles, and even pneumonia. Chronic pain, on the other hand, can lead to depression and anxiety. 

The tragedy is that some people never recover their independence after these injuries. 

We offer something truly unique at Lowe Law Group. No other premises liability slip and fall lawyer in Iowa has its own full-time medical doctor on staff. Dr. Andrew Georgi, our Medical Director, makes a critical difference in our cases. 

While other law firms have to rely on outside doctors for occasional consultations, Dr. Georgi works directly with our legal time from the very start of your case. With his expertise in both medicine and personal injury law, he evaluates your injuries, identifies any complications that might not be obvious to the average person, and helps your lawyers understand the full scope of your medical needs. 

Dr. Georgi doesn’t just paint a picture of how the accident has changed your body; he provides insight into how your life will continue to be different in the days, weeks, months, and even years ahead. 

It’s much harder for an insurance company to downplay your injuries when Dr. Georgi’s expertise is brought into the discussion!

Understanding Iowa Premises Liability Law: What Property Owners Owe You

Iowa’s premises liability laws are straightforward: All property owners must maintain reasonably safe conditions for anyone who visits their property. Failing to do so becomes a liability issue if someone gets injured. 

How much care a property owner owes you in Iowa doesn’t depend on why you were there. Iowa used to sort visitors into categories, giving invitees more protection than social guests. That changed in 2009, when the Iowa Supreme Court did away with those labels for anyone lawfully on the property. Now owners owe the same basic duty to every lawful visitor: reasonable care to keep the property safe.

In practice, reasonable care means a property owner should:

  • Inspect the property for hazards
  • Fix dangerous conditions promptly
  • Warn visitors about hazards they can’t fix right away
  • Keep the property in reasonably safe condition

 

When a jury decides whether an owner met that standard, it looks at the full picture. Was the harm foreseeable? Why were you on the property, and how was it being used? Did the owner have a fair chance to inspect, repair, or warn? What would it have cost to prevent the danger? These are the questions that decide the case, not a label attached to your visit.

Trespassers are the exception. Someone who enters without permission is generally owed no duty of care, though an owner still can’t set out to harm them, and children who wander onto a property may be protected.

To hold a property owner accountable in Iowa, we prove they were negligent. That means showing:

  1. They owned or controlled the property
  2. A dangerous condition existed on the property
  3. They knew about the hazard, or should have known about it through reasonable inspection
  4. They failed to fix it or warn people about it
  5. This failure directly caused your injury
  6. You suffered real damages as a result

 

These rules reach commercial businesses and government property owners alike. When they breach that duty, they don’t get to walk away from the consequences. At Lowe Law Group, we make sure they take responsibility for the harm they’ve caused.

Building Your Case: How We Prove Negligence

Proving the extent of your injuries is just one part of a slip and fall claim. You also have to prove that the owner’s negligence caused your injuries. Insurance companies and defense attorneys alike will try to find any reason to minimize your claim. That’s why we build cases that leave zero room for doubt.

Step 1: The Immediate Investigation

It doesn’t take very long for the scene of the accident to change. Property owners can go in and fix the hazard, clean up the scene, or claim they never noticed the problem. That’s why it’s important to work with an attorney who understands the ins and outs of premises liability law. For example, a grocery store slip and fall attorney in Cedar Rapids if you fell in a grocery store, or an attorney who can address icy sidewalk falls and other spills. 

When you contact us, we move quickly to: 

  • Photograph and video the exact location where you fell
  • Document the hazardous condition from multiple angles
  • Measure and diagram the scene
  • Identify and preserve physical evidence
  • Review surveillance footage before it’s deleted or recorded over

Step 2: Gather Critical Evidence

Photos and video only capture the scene. The stronger evidence is usually in the records a property owner keeps, because much of our job is proving what they knew and when they knew it. That paper trail can include:

  • Maintenance and inspection logs that show whether the hazard was flagged before your fall
  • The incident report the business filed afterward
  • Earlier complaints or accidents at the same spot
  • Training records and staff statements showing whether employees were taught to catch dangers like this one
  • Building code violations that put the property below the legal standard
  • Weather data confirming the conditions behind an outdoor fall
  • An expert breakdown of why the hazard was dangerous and how it caused your injuries

 

Pulled together, these records let us show the danger was foreseeable and the owner had time to act.

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Step 3: Medical Documentation

Dr. Georgi’s role is invaluable in this process. He does more than just review your medical records; he is involved in your case from the very start.  

Dr. Georgi’s work on your case includes:

  • Tracing the direct line between your fall and the specific injuries you’re now living with
  • Examining you thoroughly and documenting everything the record needs to reflect
  • Mapping out the care you’ll need down the road and the complications that could surface later
  • Testifying in a way that carries weight with adjusters and juries alike
  • Turning dense medical findings into plain explanations that hold up in negotiation and, if it comes to it, at trial

Plenty of firms reach for a medical expert only once a case forces the issue. We built the expertise in. Dr. Georgi sits alongside our attorneys and shapes the case from day one, which isn’t a perk so much as a reason our clients tend to come out ahead.

When a case calls for more, we bring in other specialists too:

  • Economists to put a number on a lifetime of lost earnings
  • Engineers to pin down structural defects
  • Reconstruction specialists when the how of an accident is in dispute
  • Safety experts to weigh whether maintenance met the standard it should have

Step 4: Connecting the Dots

A pile of evidence proves nothing on its own. It has to be tied back to the specific things Iowa law requires us to establish, and that’s where we turn scattered facts into a story a jury can follow:

  • A dangerous condition was there in the first place
  • The owner either knew about it or should have caught it
  • There was time to fix the problem or warn people, and they let it slide
  • That inaction is what caused the particular injuries you’re dealing with
  • Those injuries carry real, calculable costs

 

None of this happens by accident. It’s deliberate, step-by-step work, and it’s how we move a case from “you got hurt” to “the owner is responsible, and here’s the bill.”

Types of Compensation You Can Recover

After a property owner’s carelessness leaves you hurt, Iowa law lets you pursue payment for the full weight of what followed. This isn’t about coming out ahead. It’s about getting back as close as possible to the life you had before a preventable fall changed it here in Cedar Rapids.

Medical Expenses

Recovery costs money, and you shouldn’t be the one absorbing it. Your claim can account for what you’ve already paid and what your care will keep demanding:

  • Hospital stays and surgeries
  • Ambulance transport and emergency treatment
  • Follow-up appointments with doctors and specialists
  • Prescription medications
  • Rehabilitation and physical therapy
  • In-home nursing or aide care
  • Assistive equipment such as braces, walkers, and wheelchairs
  • The ongoing and future treatment your recovery still requires

 

That last point is where Dr. Georgi earns his place on our team. Insurers are happy to reimburse the bills already in front of them while pretending the next five years of care don’t exist. His read on your long-term needs keeps those future costs on the table where they belong.

Lost Wages and Earning Capacity

A serious fall doesn’t just cost you at the hospital. It costs you at work, sometimes for good. You can seek compensation for:

  • The paychecks you missed while healing
  • Overtime and bonuses that slipped out of reach
  • Vacation and sick days you had to spend on recovery
  • A lower earning ceiling if you can’t return to the same job
  • Promotions and advancement the injury put on hold
  • Future income lost permanently when the damage is lasting

 

Some falls are severe enough that a full-time or part-time worker never makes it back, or comes back at a fraction of their old capacity. When that happens, we bring in economic experts to put a real number on everything you stand to lose across your working years.

Pain and Suffering

Not every loss shows up on an invoice. The law recognizes that, and so do we. You may be owed compensation for:

  • The physical pain you live with day to day
  • Anxiety, depression, and other emotional fallout
  • Permanent scarring or disability
  • The independence you had before the fall
  • Hobbies and activities that are now off the table
  • The strain your injury puts on your family

 

These harms are just as real as a hospital bill, even if they resist a dollar figure. We prove them with medical testimony, your own account of daily life, and statements from the people who watch you struggle up close.

Other Damages

Your situation may open the door to further recovery, including:

  • Modifications that make your home or vehicle accessible
  • The cost of paying others for chores and household tasks you can no longer handle
  • Personal property damaged in the fall, like clothing or eyeglasses

What About Legal Fees?

Slip and fall cases at our firm run on contingency, which means hiring us costs you nothing up front. We only get paid when we win. Our fee comes out of the settlement or verdict, never out of your pocket, so a portion of your recovery goes to your Lowe Law Group team if we succeed and nothing at all if we don’t.

Why Lowe Law Group for Your Cedar Rapids Slip and Fall Case

Plenty of Iowa firms handle slip and fall cases. What sets us apart is how we build them, and it starts with medical firepower most firms can’t match.

Dr. Andrew Georgi is our full-time Medical Director, not an outside consultant we phone when a case gets complicated. He’s a Yale-trained physician who has worked on more than 10,000 surgeries, and he sits with our attorneys on every serious injury case. While other firms squint at medical records they don’t fully grasp, Dr. Georgi is spotting the complications that surface later, mapping the future care you’ll need, and explaining it all in terms an adjuster or jury can’t wave away. That means your settlement reflects the full scope of your injuries, not just what’s visible today.

We also know the other side’s playbook, because many of our attorneys used to work for the insurance companies and defense firms now across the table from us. They sat in the strategy meetings where payouts get minimized. We know which arguments land, which threats are bluffs, and when a case is worth taking to trial.

That local knowledge matters too. We understand how Iowa winters turn walkways dangerous, how Cedar Rapids property owners and insurers operate, and how cases move through the courts here. You can see what that’s added up to on our Victories page.

A few more reasons clients trust us:

  • We’re deliberate, never reactive. Every move is intentional.
  • We keep you informed at every stage and answer your questions straight.
  • We give honest advice and never oversell an outcome.
  • There’s no upfront cost and no risk. You pay only if we win.
  • We prepare every case for trial from day one, so we’re ready if that becomes a smart play.

Cedar Rapids Slip and Fall Accident FAQs

How long do I have to file a slip and fall lawsuit in Iowa?

You generally have two years from the date of your injury to file, under Iowa Code § 614.1(2). Claims involving a city, county, or state property come with added procedural requirements, so those are worth acting on quickly. Honestly, waiting is a bad idea in any slip and fall case. Evidence disappears and memories fade, and both cost you leverage.

What if I was partly to blame for my fall?

Iowa uses a modified comparative fault rule. As long as your share of the blame doesn’t top 50%, you can still recover, though your award shrinks by whatever percentage of fault lands on you. Say you’re found 30% responsible for a $100,000 case. You’d walk away with $70,000. Cross the 51% line, though, and recovery is off the table. Insurers know this, which is why they push to pin as much fault on you as possible, and why we come back with hard evidence of what the property owner did wrong.

What is my slip and fall case worth?

There’s no flat rate. Value turns on how badly you were hurt, how much treatment you’ve needed, the work you’ve lost, whether any limitations are permanent, and how clearly the evidence points to the owner’s negligence. We’ll give you a straight read on all of that during your free consultation.

Do I actually need a lawyer for a slip and fall case?

The other side already has one, plus a claims team working to pay you as little as possible. Going in alone puts you at a real disadvantage. We take on the evidence, the insurers, and the legal legwork so you can put your energy into healing instead of fighting.

What if the property owner claims the hazard was "obvious"?

A visible danger doesn’t let an owner off the hook. They still owe visitors reasonably safe conditions and fair warning. Dim lighting, a cluttered layout, or something that pulls your attention elsewhere can all make a hazard far less obvious than the owner later insists it was, and we build the case to show it.

Schedule a Free Consultation with a Lowe Law Group

A fall you didn’t cause shouldn’t leave you buried in medical bills, missed paychecks, and pain. Whether it happened in Cedar Rapids or anywhere in Iowa, you have the right to pursue compensation, and you don’t have to take on the property owner and their insurer by yourself.

Here’s what happens when you reach out to Lowe Law Group:

  • We listen to your story and how the injury has changed your daily life
  • We go through whatever you’ve gathered, from medical records to photos to incident reports
  • We walk you through your rights under Iowa law
  • We give you a candid take on where your case is strong and where it may face pushback
  • We answer every question you bring
  • We lay out what comes next if you decide to move ahead

 

The consultation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If we don’t think you have a case worth pursuing, we’ll tell you plainly.

Contact Us Today

You’ve waited long enough for someone else to do the right thing. The injury already happened, and it wasn’t your fault. Let us carry the legal fight while you put your focus where it belongs, on getting better. We’re ready to hold the property owner accountable and go after everything you’re owed.

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Focus on Recovery While We Win Your Case

Your priority now is to heal. Ours is to win your case. Here’s our 3-Step Approach:

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Let us listen to your story. We’ll provide a free, no pressure case evaluation.

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Our team handles everything: the legal process, gathering paperwork, reviewing your medical treatment, and more.

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We win your case and maximize your compensation or we don’t get paid, guaranteed.

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