Premises Liability

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.

Immigrant (a new citizen) trips on a planter after visiting his doctor.  He's 72 but says he would have worked until age 78. Liability is disputed and plaintiff served a CCP 998 offfer.

Self-employed plumber trips over uncovered drain in large lawn at mobile home park.  Collar bone fracture and shoulder tear requiring surgery.  No claim for lost earnings.

Waitress in a cabaret bringing hot water for tea, spills it onto patron's lap, causing burns and scarring. 

Teenager shot by gang member at apartment complex after security guard fails to break up gang party or warn residents of danger.  $1 million policy limits opened up after insurer fails to settle.

A laborer instructed to work on a door bell is electrocuted on job site; no workers' comp coverage.  Developer/contractor is held liable.