Premises Liability Cases

$2.21 million settlement during trial for catastrophic injuries for premises liability for 25-year-old woman working as live-in nanny who was exposed to toxic acetone fumes when employer’s home was cleaned (without her knowledge) to remove paint. She suffered toxic demyelination of the brain.
$1.5 million settlement for premises liability for 43-year-old store employee who tripped and fell on a staircase leading to the basement storage room in the store where she worked due to a lack of proper handrails. She sustained lumbar spinal injuries including herniated discs with multiple surgeries and installation of spinal cord stimulator.
$1.35 million settlement for premises liability for 37-year-old woman who tripped and fell on a broken sidewalk that was undergoing repair that lacked adequate warnings to alert her. She suffered multiple injuries, including her neck, lower back and right knee, which required surgery.

$950,000 settlement for premises liability for 30-year-old inmate at a drug rehabilitation facility who was injured when he was using a weight-lifting machine and a cable snapped, causing a bar that he was pulling down to crash into his neck. Our client suffered herniated cervical discs that required surgery, including cervical decompression and fusion.

$725,000 settlement for premises liability for 60-year-old woman who slipped on slippery, waxed floor in basement of apartment building where she lived, and suffered comminuted fracture of the patella (knee cap) that required surgery. Although the building’s maintenance staff claimed that appropriate warning signs were in place, this was disputed by our client.

$650,000 settlement for premises liability for 50-year-old tenant who fell entering elevator in his apartment building that was misleveled, and suffered injuries to the neck and back. He required two laminectomy/fusion operations for the lumbosacral spine; but defendants argued that his surgery was due to serious motor vehicle accident that occurred six years earlier.

$650,000 settlement for premises liability for 49-year-old electrician who slipped and fell on water that dripped from ice being delivered to food vendors at Convention Center where he was employed. He suffered left knee injury requiring arthroscopic surgery for torn cartilage and aggravation of prior back injury due to his altered gait.

$500,000 settlement for premises liability for 55-year-old electrician who slipped and fell on wet floor near a dumpster and suffered a shoulder injury with rotator cuff tear that required arthroscopic shoulder surgery and open rotator cuff repair, as well as further surgery for recurrent rotator cuff tear; and our client also injured his lumbosacral spine requiring surgery, including laminectomy and discectomy.

$500,000 settlement for premises liability for a 36-year-old firefighter who fell on rusted and bent steps on fire escape, with resulting aggravation of pre-existing herniated/bulging lumbosacral discs.

$500,000 settlement for premises liability for woman who slipped and fell on oil in elevator which had been applied to the walls of the elevator to remove graffiti. She suffered a herniated disc at L4-5 requiring surgery for fusion.

$485,000 settlement for premises liability for 20-year-old man who tripped and fell due to a broken step in the stairway of an apartment house. As a result, he suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee that required surgery.

$435,000 settlement for premises liability for 45-year-old woman who was injured in the laundry room of her apartment building when the bottom metal door of the dryer struck her leg, causing contusion of the lower leg with resulting reflex sympathetic dystrophy (complex regional pain syndrome) of the lower extremity.

Case Results

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$2.1 million
settlement

for 33-year old electrician who fell from ladder while attempting to fit heavy cable into crown box when cable sprung back and struck him, causing him to suffer left shoulder injury with impingement.

$1.6 million
settlement

for 38-year old electrician who slipped and fell on debris on stairway with resulting cervical herniated disc and aggravation of pre-existing arthritic changes.

$2.55 million
settlement

for 42-year old electrician who fell into an uncovered, unprotected hole and suffered a severe low back injury with herniated disc(s) that required surgery at L4-5 and L5-S1 levels.

$1.75 million
settlement

for 26-year old construction worker who fell through opening in roof and fractured his wrist, requiring surgery with open reduction and internal fixation, external fixation device, and eventual fusion.

$2.5 million
settlement

for 38-year old female electrician (with history of prior neck injury) who tripped on uneven Masonite protective floor covering, and suffered neck injury with herniated discs requiring cervical fusion.

$1.2 million
settlement

during trial for 40-year old sheet metal worker who was struck in the neck and shoulder by an air conditioning unit and suffered herniated cervical discs and cervical radiculopathy.