- Claude Wyle | October 26, 2007 2:39 PM | San Francisco, CA
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Defective & Dangerous Products
The CPSC has issued several Safety Tips to Help Prevent Hidden Halloween Dangers, encouraging parents to integrate "Safety into Celebration". When it comes to children's safety, there is no trick. Hidden dangers associated with dangerous or defective costumes, unclean treats, and hazardous decorations can be easily prevented. Accidents and personal injuries to children happen each year, however,...
- David Rowell | October 18, 2007 5:31 PM | Fresno, CA
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
Robert Yusem slipped on ice in a parking lot in a Pennsylvania industrial park in 2000, and suffered serious injuries, including fractures of his elbow, arm and ankle. It's taken seven years, but a jury recently awarded Yusems and his wife $390,000 in damages based on a claim of premises liabilty. In his "slip and fall" lawsuit, Yusems argued that the defendant parking-lot owner carelessly...
- Claude Wyle | September 05, 2007 4:27 PM | San Francisco, CA
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Head & Brain Injuries
Astoundingly, 1.5-2 million people a year sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) from motor vehicle accidents such as automobile accidents and motorcycle accidents, as well as bicycle accidents and pedestrian accidents and falls, sport injuries, and other traumatic events. 500,000 of these TBIs are severe enough to require hospitalization, and 50,000 people die from complications of head...
- David Rowell | August 24, 2007 10:40 AM | Fresno, CA
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
Delores Walker, of Chicago, filed a lawsuit against a Wendy's Restaurant in Chicago recently, seeking in excess of $50,000.00 in damages resulting from a slip-and-fall incident. Walker claims that Wendy's failed to inspect and maintain the restaurant, among other things, causeing her to fall and suffer permanent injuries.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on...
- Claude Wyle | July 23, 2007 11:35 AM | San Francisco, CA
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
The mother of the 4-year-old boy who recently drowned in a Great America pool blames lifeguards for not spotting her son until it was too late to save him, but was not in the pool herself at the time of the drowning. Great America now requires all children less than 4 feet tall wear life jackets while in its pools. Will this new rule save lives? Or will it only provide a false sense of...
- Claude Wyle | July 23, 2007 11:20 AM | Oakland, CA
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
After the recent drowning of a 4-year-old boy, Great America is now requiring all children under 4 feet tall wear life vests in its pools. The mother of the boy was not in the pool at the time of the drowning and blames lifeguards for not spotting her son until it was too late. Will the new requirement save lives, or will it simply provide a false sense of security? Perhaps a better rule...
- Shannon Weidemann | July 18, 2007 10:49 AM | Fresno, CA
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
A Theater in the Bronx and a Synagogue have had a slip and fall lawsuit filed against them by a man that broke his leg while attending a dinner event. A temporary stage and staircase was built over the theater seats for the dinner. The man fell down the staircase.Attorney Al Bernstone, who is representing the Karans in a lawsuit seeking an as-yet undetermined amount in damages, charged that...
- Claude Wyle | December 10, 2006 11:16 AM | Oakland, CA
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
Slip and fall and trip and fall accidents and injuries have reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., particularly for persons over 65 years of age. Fortunately, there are several ways to help prevent slip and fall and trip and fall accidents, which are listed herein below. If you are injured due to another's negligence or because of a dangerous or defective condition on someone's property, you...
- Claude Wyle | November 06, 2006 3:28 PM | Oakland, CA
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
Congratulations to my partner, George Choulos, for another great result on a trip and fall case. $500,000! This trip and fall case, filed in San Francisco, California, is particularly notable since Choulos' client "tripped and fell" over a raised threshold and into an untempered glass shower door in his own apartment, on his way to the bathroom. Broken shards of glass pierced the man's body...