Premises Liability

Plaintiff thinks she is stepping into a closet, but it is a steep stairwell.

Customer slips and falls in Save Mart Supermarket. Water leaking from air conditioner is blamed.

Tenant at apartment complex walks across wet grass to get a doggy poop bag.

Airline passenger slips and falls on wet floor in busy LAX bathroom.  Defense argues "it didn't happen" and the tile floor was safe.

Bakery rep delivering bread falls into construction hole in restaurant's kitchen floor.

Target employee leaves a stepladder and cart full of cardboard in aisle; plaintiff falls over ladder.

Plaintiff drank with cousin in cousin's apartment, then slipped and fell; cause disputed.

Tennis spectator trips and falls from patio onto slope.

Inspector uses ladder provided by the facility he is inspecting, falls 12 feet when ladder slips out.

Man trips and falls over single step at office building he's been at many times before, claims step was not well marked.

Football fan leaving her apartment to see pro playoff game falls down outside front stairway to her apartment.  Hospital enters high BAL in her chart. Plaintiff exceeds her CCP Section 998 offer.

Studio publicity head trips on step in restaurant converted from residence built in 1928. Quadriparesis. Farmers Insurance failed to settle within policy limits.

Restaurant/night club installs trench cover on sidewalk, patron trips on raised edge of cover. $175,000 pretrial offer from defense.

Female patron alleges she was sexually battered by a West Hollywood bar's employee in a unisex restroom; claims negligent security against the bar owners.