PREMISES LIABILITY PLAINTIFF/EXPERT TESTIMONY
Jan 01, 2013OUTCOME: Settled
My client was a vibrant 60 year old local businesswoman. She and her best friend went to shop at a retail strip mall two days after a winter snowfall. On her way into the store, she slipped on ice th ... at had not been removed since the snowfall. She broke both bones in her ankle. It required two surgeries and over a year to begin getting back to normal. Her injury still hurt and limited her after the second surgery. Her medical expenses totaled approximately $80,000. I quickly deposed the corporate representative for the out of town owner where it became obvious that after it purchased the building two years before the fall it terminated snow and ice removal and simply relied on calls from tenants complaining about such issues. After hiring an economist to calculate the plaintiff’s lost income, past and future, we settled what the mediator called “just a broken ankle case” for $400,000.
