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

On Wednesday, March 26, a chlorine gas leak in a pool injured 36 students and one adult. Rocori High School is the same school where two boys were killed in a shooting over four years ago.No one was critically injured, but twelve students and the injured adult had to stay over night at St. Cloud Hospital for further treatment. The leak was found just before 2 p.m. and the building was...

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Steven and Vicky Treichel filed a lawsuit on their son's behalf over a fall that happened at Fonferek Glen Park. Justin Treichel was 16 when he fell down a cliff at the park in 2004.He had been playing paintball with friends and broke both legs and bones in his face and jaw. The lawsuit was asking for compensation for medical bills and the parents' lost wages. Judge Peter Naze dismissed the...

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St. Mary's/Duluth Clinic is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by three former employees who charge they were touched inappropriately by a doctor to whom they were referred when they suffered job--related injuries.The lawsuits allege that SMDC breached its duty of care to the plaintiffs by failing to remove from employment or take actions against individuals such as Downs that they knew or...

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