Connecticut updates in category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

A man fell in a stairwell in St. Louis and was injured. He is now suing the owner of the property in a premises liability lawsuit. He claims that the stairwell was unlit and was not properly marked off with a partition. The fall happened in March. According to the complaint filed Nov. 1 in St. Clair County Circuit Court, the defendants carelessly and negligently permitted the sidewalk at the...

A Campbell County man fell in a local Wal-Mart store in 2005 and injured his knee. He filed a premises liability lawsuit against the company in court last week. His lawyer argues that he reinjured a knee that has been operated on previously. Dick Baker was shopping at the store Feb. 20, 2005, when the accident happened. He walked around the end of an aisle, stepped into a pool of water caused...

Nevada's OSHA fined Boyd Gaming $185,000 for nine safety violations stemming from the tragic deaths of two of its employees at the Orleans hotel-casino in Las Vegas. The two men died when they entered a manhole inside the casino to clear blocked grease. Their deaths were caused by toxic gas exposure. To read more about the workplace fines click here.For more information on this subject...

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has cut back on bridge inspections across the state over the past two years. Under its new policy, the DOT will inspect most bridges half as often as outlined under federal standards, and less often than it did at the time of the 1983 Mianus River Bridge collapse, which killed three and caused the state to improve its inspection standards. This cut...

A 2-year-old boy remained in critical condition this morning after he was found Sunday at the bottom of a pool during a family party, police said. Antonio Capetillo of Hartford was attending a birthday party with his family on Elm Street in East Hartford when he went through an unlocked gate surrounding an above-ground swimming pool and fell into the water. The police continue to investigate...

Judge Robert Bork, former Supreme Court nominee, has filed a personal injury lawsuit, alleging that he injured himself as a result of a slip and fall accident at the Yale Club last year. He seeks compensatory and punitive damages. This lawsuit is noteworthy because Judge Bork has written on many subjects, including the need for tort reform. The plaintiff's tort bar and personal injury...

Property owners, landlords, property managers and places of business including grocery stores, shopping malls, gas stations, bars, nightclubs and hotels, have a duty to their visitors and customers to maintain their property in a reasonably safe condition. They have a duty to inspect the property from time to time to make sure that no hazards or defects exist. If a dangerous condition is...

The Connecticut State Supreme Court recently adopted the mode of operation of rule. This rule is extremely important for people injured as a result of a fall down (slip and fall) at a self service store. Self service stores are supermarkets, cafeterias, fast-food restaurants and other businesses where the customer selects the merchandise or food from the displays as opposed to an employee...

With the snow, sleet and ice falling, there will undoubtedly be slippery areas on driveways, walkways, sidewalks and parking lots over the next few days. Property owners and tenants have a duty following a storm to remove accumulations of snow and ice so that the property is reasonably safe. If the snow and ice is not properly removed and someone falls causing injury, the property owner or...

Property owners, landlords, property managers and places of business including grocery stores, shopping malls, gas stations, bars, nightclubs and hotels, have a duty to their visitors and customers to maintain their property in a reasonably safe condition. They have a duty to inspect the property from time to time to make sure that no hazards or defects exist. If a dangerous condition is...

A boy drowned in a City of Hartford's public pool located in Pope Park. It appears that the boy was not discovered for some time. The Hartford police are presently investigating the incident. Accoring to the Hartford Courant:The city hires a security company to watch the pool at night. Caraballo said he did not know why the security company, which on Sunday started work for the 2006 summer...

While all states differ in their particular laws for premises liabilty lawsuits, miami.injuryboard.com offers a pretty comprehensive overview. Obviously there cen be different types of slips and falls depending on which area of the country a person is in (I doubt there are many slips on ice in Miami!), but a general rule to remember is that a landowner, business owner, homeowner, etc. may be...