Falling is a leading cause of accidental death worldwide, and it is a major cause of personal injury. Sometimes, a fall is just an accident, and nothing could have been done to avoid it. However, that does not mean that one legally can turn a blind eye towards hazardous conditions. As a general rule, liability…
Slip and Fall (Trip and Fall) cases are some of the most misunderstood cases in the world of personal injury law. People often think that if you fall on someone’s property that the property owner is immediately responsible. Such is definitely not the case. For any property owner or property maintenance company to be responsible,…
Slip and fall cases are one of the first scenarios the general public thinks about when they think of a lawsuit. A person walks into a business and slips on a patch of ice in the parking lot and is hurt on impact. These cases are always premise liability cases, where a personal injury occurred because…
People want to have a good time when they go out to eat. Sometimes they do have a good time and enjoy a meal they didn’t have to prepare, but on rare occasions, their enjoyment is ruined when they slip and fall on a wet floor and become injured. This recently happened to a woman…
Many Boston residents often struggle with judging how slippery a floor or surface is. Unfortunately, sometimes such an error can lead to serious injuries. To address this problem, one insurance company recently noted some misconceptions about floor surfaces that may surprise many, especially with the high amount of slip and fall accidents every year. For…
On January 16, 2012, the plaintiff, a sixty-two-year-old woman, went to a Boston restaurant on her lunch break. Upon finishing lunch, she exited the restaurant, briefly walked along the City sidewalk, then suddenly slipped and fell on ice. The plaintiff presented to a nearby emergency room where radiographs confirmed she sustained several fractures to her…