Posts tagged liability

• Look Where You Walk

  Staff Writer | March 14, 2006 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  In late February, the United States Supreme Court held that a woman who tripped over her mail left on her porch rather than her mailbox can sue the United States Postal Service for personal injuries arising out of her fall. Today, I read an article in the Arizona Daily Star describing this lawsuit and immediately thought about the McDonalds case involving hot coffee spilled in the lap of an...

• Arizona Punitive Damages Legislation

  Staff Writer | February 15, 2006 10:36 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Each year various members of the Arizona legislature introduce bills concerning all aspects of "tort reform." This year is no different. I recently learned that Arizona State Representative Jennifer Burns introduced a bill to prevent Plaintiffs from recovering punitive damges but not to outlaw puntive damages awards in their entirety. Rather than outlawing punitive damages, Representative...

• Enron and Corporate America

  Staff Writer | February 08, 2006 1:01 PM | 1 CommentPhoenix, AZ Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The trial of Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling began this last week in a Houston, Texas courtroom. This corporate scandal and the beginning of the trial of its former executives has reinforced my opinion about why jurors rathern than government or corporate America should have the final say about what corporations should and should not do, and when corporations should be held...

• How Much Time Do I Have to File a Lawsuit?

  Staff Writer | February 02, 2006 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you have been injured in an accident and somebody else bears responsibility, one question likely to arise is whether you must file suit within a specified period of time. In Arizona, you must file suit within a specific time or you will forever lose your rights to sue. This time period can be as little as 180 days from the date you suffered harm (or should have known), as long as two...

• Washington Swing Accident Claims 15 Y.O.

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2006 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A colleague in Seattle, Mike Myers, posts news of an unfortunate accident in which a 15 year old boy fell to his death from a rope swing at at a party where there was underage drinking.Mike notes:The landowner who allowed the 60 foot rope swing on his or her property may also be liable if the swing constituted a known, dangerous condition. It is important for land/homeonwners to be aware of...