Personal Injury Premises Liability
- In a slip and fall accident plaintiff claimed she slipped on a rough piece of paper and fell injuring the right side of her body. Defendant claimed the area had been cleaned 30 minutes prior to the accident and that she suffered from a prior carpal tunnel syndrome.
- In a slip and fall accident on a private property plaintiff claimed that there was wet broken up pavement that caused him to fall. Defendant claimed trivial defect and that the defect was open and obvious.
- Slip and Fall in the rain. Plaintiff claimed that a dangerous condition in the sidewalk caused him to fall. Defendant claimed natural hazard and that plaintiff was drunk at the time of the accident and that he did not fall in the location where he claimed he fell. D claiming a pot hole caused him to fall.
- In a personal injury action by an Iranian American woman for a fall from the escalator, mediation failed because her husband and son were not involved in the process. Once the correct decision makers were brought to the table, the case was settled. In the Middle Eastern Cultures decisions are made collectively and the head of the household, usually the men in the family, will have to be present.