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What legal action should I take after suffering from slip and fall knee injury? I had a slip and fall in a small family owned grocery store. I injured my knee had arthroscopic surgery, physical therapy and joint fluid injections and will need replacement surgery. Can you give me a ball park what I need to ask for this? I have bills equaling $20,000 already all paid out of pocket no insurance. Insurance company has admitted fault. Store had a video tape.

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No; that's not possible on the little information provided. The first problem has to do with causation. A lawyer needs to review a medical report about causation, did the fall cause the need for the surgery, before being able to assess proximate cause. And then the lawyer would need to know more, a lot more about how you fell and what caused you to fall before assigning fault, which might reduce the amount of the settlement. As I said, no it's not possible. 

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