A slip-and-fall case that was dismissed because the issue of defects in the sidewalk had been deemed trivial as a matter of law has been revived by the Commonwealth Court.
On Nov. 20, a three-judge panel ruled in Shaw v. Thomas Jefferson University that the issue of whether or not an elevation in the sidewalk where the plaintiff fell and injured herself was trivial should be determined by a jury.
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