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The Legal Intelligencer

Grocery Store Slip-and-Fall Results In Phila. Jury Award

By | April 16, 2016
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $1.5 million to a 51-year-old woman who fractured her wrist and injured her knee in a slip-and-fall at a grocery store. The jury returned the verdict despite the plaintiff's demand of just $100,000, leading defendant Bottom Dollar Food to file a post-trial motion for remittitur calling the award "grossly exorbitant" and "shocking to the judicial conscience."
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Property Owner Barely Liable for Staircase Fall

By | April 13, 2016
A jury has sided primarily with a property owner in a premises liability case.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Parties Settle for $5.5M After Child Fell From Window

By | April 08, 2016
The family of a 7-year-old who was allegedly brain damaged after falling out of a third-story window has settled with numerous parties for more than $5.5 million.
15 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court: Mode-of-Operation Charge Needed in Costco Slip-and-Fall

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a jury should have been given the mode-of-operation charge in a case involving a man who alleged that he slipped and fell on a free food sample on the floor of a Costco wholesale store.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Barron v. Allied Properties, Inc., PICS Case No. 16-0398 (Pa. Super. March 23, 2016) (memorandum) Gantman, P.J. (8 pages).

By | April 04, 2016
Summary judgment was proper for defendant property owner in slip and fall case where evidence and testimony demonstrated that snow and ice had not accumulated in "hills and ridges" such as to subject defendant to liability. Summary judgment affirmed.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Zielke v. Mullen, PICS Case No. 16-0406 (C.P. Delaware Dec. 18, 2015) Green, J. (7 pages).

By | April 04, 2016
Zero non-economic damages award for for pain and suffering where the trial court had reason to believe the jury either did not believe a plaintiff had any pain or suffering or believed that any pain or suffering was the result of preexisting conditions was appealed. The trial court did not err in failing to disturb verdict.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Valet Lane Carjacking Leads to Suit Against Marriott Over Lexus Theft

A wild carjacking by a man dressed as a valet led to a negligence suit against JW Marriott Marquis Miami and its valet company.
16 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Supreme Court Clarifies the Mode-of-Operation Rule

The New Jersey Supreme Court has clearly set forth the limited applicability of the mode-of-operation rule to self-service situations.
17 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Marisco v. Marisco, PICS Case No. 16-0381 (W.D. Pa. March 15, 2016) Cohill, J. (12 pages).

By | March 27, 2016
A property owner owed the duty of reasonable care in the maintenance of his property, which included the duty to warn about hidden dangers. Economic damages of $14,979 and noneconomic damages of $50,000 awarded to plaintiff.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Awards $1.8M To Man With Chemical Burns

By | March 27, 2016
A Philadelphia jury awarded a ­sanitation worker more than $1.8 million after he was partially blinded when caustic chemicals splashed into his eye while cleaning a Hatfield Quality Meats ­processing plant.
9 minute read

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