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Daily Business Review

Jury Awards $1.6M in Bagel Shop Crash

The award goes to a man injured in a Pompano Beach bagel shop when a car crashed through the window.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$15M Settlement Reached in Case of Escalator Accident

A girl whose foot was caught in a shopping mall escalator, saved only after nearly two-dozen medical procedures and weeks of hospitalization, settled a Bergen County Superior Court suit for $15 million.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court of Appeals Addresses 'Storm in Progress' Doctrine

Maurice Recchia discusses a recent decision that makes it clear that rain which follows without a temporal break from a snow or ice storm and which continues in time for several hours can be defined as a "storm in progress" such that a landowner's duty to clear the premises will not arise until the rain has ended. Time will tell whether the extra leeway seemingly granted by the majority will result in reduced vigilance by property owners.
14 minute read

Daily Business Review

No Damages Awarded in Wal-Mart Liability Case

Wal-Mart faces no damages in a premises liability case.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Anderson v. Sisters Serving Sisters Inc., PICS Case No. 16-0599 (C.P. Philadelphia April 26, 2016) Massiah-Jackson, J. (5 pages).

Co-defendant club owner who did not have business insurance coverage was sued for injuries sustained on the premises and challenged the suit for improper service of process. Denied.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Retail Landlord Defeats Lawsuit in Pedestrian Death

Cole, Scott & Kissane lawyers won a defense verdict in a $3 million wrongful death case against a retail plaza in suburban Kendall.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Vertical Ladder Fire Escape Where Student Fell Ruled Illegal

The landlord of a Lower East Side walk-up cannot escape liability for a student's fall from a fire escape on grounds that a 1929 law outlawing the type of fire escape from which she fell had been grandfathered under the statute.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Achille v. St. Luke's Physician's Grp., PICS Case No. 16-0479 (C.P. Monroe Feb. 4, 2016) Williamson, J. (7 pages).

By | April 24, 2016
In this premises liability action, genuine issues of fact existed regarding whether the unoccupied wheelchair with which plaintiff collided outside the doctor's office was an unreasonably dangerous condition and whether defendant had notice of its existence which precluded summary judgment. Defendant's motion for summary judgment denied.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Big Settlements Reached in Deaths of Nursing Students Killed in Truck Crash, Plaintiffs' Lawyers Say

Attorneys for the families of four of the five nursing students who perished last year in a tractor-trailer collision on Interstate 16 near Savannah said that they have secured "substantial settlements" in civil suits against the truck owner, the driver and others. One lawyer said his client had received a $14 million payment.
16 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Verdict for Fall Victim After Alleging Video Spoliation

By | April 16, 2016
A Philadelphia jury has ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a slip-and-fall case involving an allegedly defective sidewalk grate.
12 minute read

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