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New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers Divided on Impact of Mode-of-Operation Ruling

It will be months or years before the full impact of the New Jersey Supreme Court's September decision restricting slip-and-fall plaintiffs' use of the "mode-of-operation" doctrine is known. But plaintiff and defense practitioners certainly have taken notice.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$60,000 For Realtor's Fall on Stairs

By | December 11, 2015
On Jan. 8, 2011, plaintiff Tracey Fields, 55, a real estate agent, was showing clients around the home of Manuel and Julie Jimenez in Manalapan. While exiting the home, Fields slipped on icy exterior stairs. She struck her right elbow against the stairs.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Wrong Hospital Address Wins Reversal

By | December 07, 2015
A good appellate lawyer will scour the record looking for multiple theories for why a trial court was wrong to dismiss a case. Iain Simpson did all of those things. But it turns out he only needed to look up the defendant hospital's address to win a reversal from Houston's First Court of Appeals.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Haggard Attorney Wins $2.85M Settlement for Family That Was Attacked

By | December 04, 2015
On Jan. 21, 2013, a gunman burst into a 7-year-old's daytime birthday party at her family's apartment in the city of Cocoa, near Cape Canaveral, killing the little girl's mother, Lydia Bradford. The child's grandmother, Equaller Bradford, was also targeted. Yvonne Smith, as representative of Lydia Bradford's estate and of Equaller Bradford, sued the owner and manager of the apartment complex. Attorney Christopher L. Marlowe, partner at the Haggard Law Firm in Coral Gables, representing Smith, won a settlement of $2.85 million.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Tossing $35M Verdict Splintered Georgia Court of Appeals

The Georgia Court of Appeals was united in tossing a $35 million verdict against Six Flags Over Georgia, but the 12 judges on the court went four different directions in explaining—or not explaining—their reasons.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Wrong Hospital Address Wins Reversal

A good appellate lawyer will scour the record looking for multiple theories for why a trial court was wrong to dismiss a case. Iain Simpson did all of those things. But it turns out he only needed to look up the defendant hospital's address to win a reversal from Houston's First Court of Appeals.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Rodriguez v. The City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority

By | November 27, 2015
Time Between End of Storm and Accident Did Not Trigger City's Obligation to Remove Snow
2 minute read

The Recorder

Garcia v. Holt

By | November 24, 2015
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

$2.5 Million Settlement Ends 9-Year Litigation in Lawn Fall

A Wellington homeowner association agreed to pay a man whose foot caught on an open sprinkler cylinder, leading to 13 surgical procedures.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fourth Settlement Reached in Miami Apartment Shootings

The family of a 25-year-old Miami man who was fatally shot near his apartment will receive $1.45 million from the property owner and manager after they settled a negligent security claim.
3 minute read

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