A woman who slipped and fractured an ankle on a patch of black ice outside an office park was awarded $700,000 by a Fulton County jury, which turned aside defense arguments that the plaintiff, as a former resident of Chicago, should have had experience in recognizing and walking on frozen surfaces.
Layla Bitoy’s attorney, James Rice, said he was concerned when three of his client’s colleagues who were with her when she fell testified that they had seen the ice and didn’t know why she hadn’t avoided it.
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