Long after the New York State Trial Lawyers Association lost the war over the use of its Big Apple Maps to provide New York City with prior notice in trip-and-fall cases, the group has won one potentially final battle.
The bar group began producing Big Apple Maps—an annual outline of more than 700,000 rises, falls and divots in the city’s 13,000-plus blocks—in 1982, in response to a new city law precluding personal injury suits in sidewalk cases in which the city did not have prior notice of the alleged defects.
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