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

I received an important and insightful response to my May 2 post on this subject. These events do occur to even the most careful and caring parents. It takes so little time for a child to be in...

A recent article on AOL News reported that a theme park ride injury last summer at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom may have been the result of workers not following the manufacturers instructions. The...

A construction crane fell 30 floors and crashed through the roof of a house being used as the construction office of a highrise condo in Miami, killing two men. One was a 59 year-old insurance company inspector; the other was an employee of the construction company who was only 29. Four other employees were hospitalized.The height of the crane was being raised so that it could extend further...

The Orange County, Florida Health Department confirmed that two tourists were infected with the potentially deadly Legionnaires' disease. The disease is caused by a type of bacteria known as Legionella. These bacteria grow in warm water sources, including swimming pools, spas, water tanks, plumbing containers and, most famously, in building air-conditioning systems. A hotel in Orlando, near...

A 17-year-old boy was attacked and killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day. Somehow the 350-pound Siberian Tiger was able to escape from it's enclosure. The tiger attack happened shortly after the zoo closed. Although some zoo officials speculate the threesome may have teased the tiger, San Francisco police Lt. Leroy Lindo said police currently have no reason to believe...

Following a four day Jury trial, Ronald Rosen, Evan Rosen and Helen Farber, while representing their client received a jury verdict in excess of $682,733 on a trip and fall case. Our client, an employee of Finlay Fine Jewelers, which leases counter space from the Bloomingdales in the Boca Town Center Mall, fell over a cart in the department store's storage room when the motion-sensor lights...

I never cease to be amazed at the number of stores that respond to spills or other dangerous conditions on their floor by simply throwing out a plastic cone and leaving it there. As if this is where their responsibility ends. How often have you asked someone to please clean up 'aisle 5' , only to be met with a blank stare....who me? Recently, it took me three attempts to get an employee to...

Do you or your children wear the comfortable Crocs? If so, be aware there are more and more reports of people, and especially children, getting thier Crocs or similar shoeware , caught in escalators or similar moving walkways. The Associated Press reports that the flexibility and grip that makes Crocs so popular is what puts the wearer at risk for entrapment to occur. Some of the injuries...

A man who alleges he suffered injuries after a slip and fall accident in a Granite City Wal-Mart restroom, has filed a lawsuit in excess of $50,000 in damages.The lawsuit, filed August 20, in Madison County Circuit Court, alleges that on April 17, Wal-Mart allowed water to accumulate on the men's restroom floor causing him to slip-and-fall in the area he had to use.According to the complaint,...

A woman who suffered life-long injuries in a ferocious dog attack was awarded $3.7 million by jurors, Thursday. The jury found Delray Beach city officials partially responsible for the attack, in fact, more so than the dog owners.The jury assigned 40 percent of the blame to the homeowner and 60 percent to Delray Beach, making the city potentially liable for over $2.2 million dollars in...

A Wal-Mart employee, who testified in a slip-and-fall case, believes her testimony led to her termination. Now she is suing Wal-Mart, her former employer, for $1 million in damages.The former employee, a witness in a personal injury case against Wal-Mart, alleges she was directed to lie under oath and commit perjury. She claims she called Wal-Mart maintenance regarding a substance on the floor,...

A Florida woman is being accused of running a "slip and fall" scam at a grocery store in Sunrise.Surveillance cameras captured images of the woman losing her footing in one of the aisles and taking a nasty fall. A store worker comes to help her up, when she loses her footing again, falling to the floor.After viewing the surveillance footage the store manager noticed there was something strange...

Eight people were standing on the second-story deck of a rental property on Long Beach Island when it collapsed. The deck collapse happened Tuesday morning. Six people were taken to the hospital to be treated for their injuries. One person was treated at the scene of the accident. The most seriously injured man has head injuries and is in serious condition. The private detective,...

A nine-year-old boy walking home, Saturday afternoon, suffered a dog bite by an American Bull Dog on Mystic Avenue, in New Port Richie.The boy was transported by helicopter to the hospital with a dog bite on the leg. The dog was taken into custody by Pasco Animal Services while Pasco Sheriff's Office and Animal Services continues to investigate the incident.If you or a loved one has suffered a...

Sadly another lawsuit has been filed here in Central Florida related to another case of alleged clergy molestation or abuseThe mother of a Lake County boy who was sexually abused by his pastor has sued the clergyman, two area churches and two Baptist groups, maintaining they should have protected her son.The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory damages for the boy's continuing psychotherapy...