Jeffrey Hill and Gregory Gold: Largest slip and fall verdict ever 
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: December 28, 2010
Tags: Lawyers of the Year, Lawyers of the Year 2010, premises liability, slip and fall, Walmart
Jeffrey Hill
By the time Holly Averyt called solo attorney Jeffrey Hill, every other lawyer had turned her case down.
Gregory Gold
Restaurant may be liable for fall from stool
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: November 12, 2010
Tags: negligence, premises liability, res ipsa loquitur
A restaurant may be liable for a customer’s fall from a broken stool – even though the company could show that it lacked actual or constructive notice of the defect, the California Court of Appeal has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.
Store not liable under ‘mode of operation’ theory
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: September 22, 2010
Tags: premises liability, slip and fall, “mode of operation”
A slip and fall plaintiff could not show that a grocery store was liable for his injuries based on the mode in which it operated, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled.
Store may be liable for slip on ice
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: July 31, 2010
Tags: premises liability, slip and fall
A store may be liable for a customer’s fall in a parking lot – regardless of whether the accident was the result of a natural or “unnatural” accumulation of ice and snow, Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.
Store may be liable for attack in parking lot
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: July 7, 2010
Tags: duty of care, premises liability
A grocery store may be liable for a criminal attack upon a customer in its parking lot, even though the store was allegedly located in “low-crime” area, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled in affirming the denial of summary judgment.
Slip-and-fall cases harder for Fla. plaintiffs
By:
Allison McAndrew
Published: June 25, 2010
Tags: premises liability, slip and fall
Plaintiffs in slip-and-fall cases involving “foreign transitory substances” will now need to prove that the premises owner had actual or constructive notice of the substance’s presence in order to prevail in court.
Resort liable for customer’s injuries in bar fight
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: April 6, 2010
Tags: duty of care, premises liability
A resort was liable for injuries suffered by a customer in a melee between two groups of bar patrons that erupted after 90 minutes of threats and shoving, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled in affirming a $1.48 million jury verdict.
Man injured in nightclub shooting awarded $12M
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: accidental shooting, premises liability
A Mississippi jury yesterday awarded $12 million to a former college basketball player made a paraplegic by a stray bullet at an Itta Bena nightclub in 2003.
Defendant not liable for aggravation of injury
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 21, 2010
Tags: joint and several liability, medical malpractice, premises liability
A premises liability defendant was not subject to joint and several liability for the aggravation of the plaintiff’s injuries that occurred as the result of medical malpractice, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in reversing judgment.
Call it ‘Sue York’ as city loses over $500M
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: October 6, 2009
Tags: negligence, premises liability
A New York City teen who was busy texting when she fell into an open manhole joins more than 6,000 others who turn a flood of legal paperwork into soaring payouts that exceed half a billion dollars each year.
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