Trip and Fall incidents in parking lots are particularly difficult for Personal Injury attorneys like myself to prove because we have to establish that not only was the defect in the pavement great enough to make the property owner legally liable but that it was not so great that the victim should have seen and avoided it.  We also have to establish that the property owner or their agents caused the condition or knew or should have known about it in time to have corrected it before the client fell.  In one case I visited the premises, measured the defect where the asphalt met the concrete edge of the lot, took pictures and talked to the shop owners.  My investigation demonstrated that the defect met the legal criteria and I learned that the parking lot had recently been re-paved, meaning that the property owner's contractor negligently created the discrepancy between the new asphalt and the concrete, making them responsible for my client's injuries.