Posts tagged premises liability

• Carbon monoxide poisons motel guest

  Barry Doyle | January 13, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A guest at an Arkansas motel was found dead in her room. An investigation into the cause of her death showed that she died due to carbon monoxide entering into her room due to a leak in a pipe which was a part of a natural gas heater.Besides the one fatality, two other guests were hospitalized for treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning.Motels are responisble for maintaining their premises in...

• Small Town Savings: The Switch from Gas Guzzlers to Golf Carts

  Nick Avgerinos | July 30, 2008 11:36 AM | 1 CommentChicago-Land, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Gas prices keep climbing, and salaries are failing to follow suit. As a result, Americans everywhere are searching for ways to save. The newest idea in Illinois: golf carts. No, people aren’t...

• CTA notice law denies legitimate claims

  Barry Doyle | May 19, 2007 1:55 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  NBC News had a recent feature on a little-known statute which requires persons injured in accidents with the CTA to provide the CTA with a special statutory notice. If the notice is not completed or if information is missing or wrong, then the lawsuit gets dismissed. It does not matter that the CTA has the correct information - the lawsuit still gets dismissed.The woman featured in the NBC...

• Doctor killed by malfunctioning elevator

  Barry Doyle | March 26, 2007 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  While boarding a hospital elevator, a Houston doctor was caught in between the doors when doors shut. Instead of automatically opening, the doors remained shut and the elevator began to rise even as a nurse inside the elevator car pushed the "door open" button.The doctor was decapitated by the http://www.houstonpress.com/2003-10-09/news/catching-elevators. Sadly, this was not the first serious...

• Man paralyzed in fall into manhole

  Barry Doyle | January 08, 2007 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A Florida man was seriously injured when he fell into an open manhole on a city street. The manhole cover is very heavy and requires a special tool to remove it. He was not rescued until a passer-by noticed the open hole several hours later.As a result of the fall, he lost consciousness. When he awoke, he found that he could not feel his legs. He is now paralyzed from the waist down. ...

• Worker killed at Tribune plant

  Barry Doyle | June 12, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A "temporary contract worker" was killed at the Chicago Tribune printing plant two weeks ago. The worker was cleaning gears at the bottom of an elevator shaft when the elevator started.The worker was cut in half by the machinery, resulting in instant fatal injuries.This clearly was an avoidable accident. When people are working in an enclosed area such as this, it should be clearly and plainly...

• Child drowns in pool

  Barry Doyle | April 20, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A California child is dead and his brother hangs for life after the two boys were discovered in a pool owned by a neighbor. The dirty condition of the water in the pool delayed finding the boys.The cause of death for the younger boy wasd drowning.One of the criticisms of trial lawyers is that accidents such as this one have the potential for bankrupting pool owners, leading to people not...

• Stoves pose tipping hazard

  Barry Doyle | April 09, 2007 9:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Many American homes are equipped with stoves which can tip over when weight is applied to the oven door. Retailers and manfacturers have long been aware of the hazard and have developed voluntary standards for design and installation of anti-tipping devices. However because the standards are voluntary, they are often not implemented.Many injuries have been reported with tiping stoves,...

• Residents in group home suffer carbon monoxide poisoning

  Barry Doyle | March 30, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Residents and rescuers alike were suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning after the gas entered a group home due to a faulty flue on a hot water heater. The levels of carbon monoxide were 100 times that normally considered safe.One person died from carbon monoxide poisoning and six others had to be hospitalized.Operators of group home such as this have an obligation to keep the...

• Ten killed in New York apartment fire

  Barry Doyle | March 11, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  10 people, including nine children, died in a fire which swept through a Bronx apartment building last week. The fire was apparently caused by an overworked space heater.There were smoke detectors in the apartment where the fire started, but the battery was dead, rendering the smoke detector useless.In Chicago, there is a smoke detector ordinance that requires all rental units to have a smoke...