We represented a father, his four year old son, and the child’s grandmother. The four year old and his grandmother were walking inside a fast food restaurant when they turned a corner and slipped on a recently mopped floor that had not been marked with a “wet floor” sign or any other warning. The child…
We represented a man who suffered a fracture to his leg that required surgery. Following the surgery, he suffered through additional complications. We were able to prove that his fall resulted from a failure of a worker to provide him with assistance which he had requested and which he obviously needed, as evidenced by his…
We represented a woman who fell into an exposed ramp behind an apartment building in Washington, DC. Our client had gone to an apartment building to visit a friend in the late afternoon/early evening. After discovering that her friend was not home, our client left via the rear exit of the apartment building. While walking…
While exiting an elevator in the Department of Treasury building where she worked, our client slipped and fell on a slippery substance. A security guard nearby told our client that the cleaning company for the building had recently mopped the area where our client fell. There were no wet floor or caution signs advising our…
A woman retained our services after she fell into a pothole while crossing the street to get to her car in the District of Columbia. As a result of her fall, she required an ankle surgery, including the permanent placement of screws into her right ankle and extensive physical therapy. Our firm investigated her case…
We represented a woman who tripped and fell on a folding table that was lying flat on the floor of a Marshall’s store in Anne Arundel County, Maryland and that was nearly identical in color to the floor. Following the incident, furniture was then placed on the table so that customers would see it was…
Our client and her fiancé were staying in a hotel in Ocean City, Maryland when they heard what sounded like water running through the walls of their bathroom. She contacted the hotel front desk, who said they would send maintenance staff to their room. Our client decided to take a video to record the sound…
Our client was walking to the bathroom in a fast food restaurant when she slipped and fell on an unknown wet substance on the floor, sustaining injuries to her back, right leg, and left hand. An employee of the restaurant was nearby mopping, but failed to put up a “wet floor” sign to warn our…
Our client was doing laundry in her apartment building in Washington, DC. She put her laundry in the washing machines and went back to her apartment. When she went back to transfer her laundry to the dryers, all three washing machines had leaked, and water spread out of the laundry room and onto the stairway…
On a snowy morning, our client left her apartment building and walked on pavers that had been installed by the apartment complex to her car. The pavers were used regularly by residents and guests of the complex, but were not cleared of snow and ice or properly treated that morning. As a result, our client…
Our client was walking out of her apartment building to her car to go to work when she slipped and fell on ice on the sidewalk. There was no other sidewalk available to her and the ice was untreated “black ice,” and extremely slippery. Prior to falling she saw the ice and tried to step…
At approximately 8:30 a.m. on a February morning, our client stopped at a gas station to use a payphone. As he returned to his vehicle from the pay-phone, he slipped and fell on a patch of ice located on the sidewalk area of the gas station property. As a result of the accident, our client…
We represented a man who fell on a recently mopped floor in a cafeteria in Suitland, MD. Although our client claimed that there were no cafeteria employees near the fall and no yellow warning signs present, two cafeteria employees testified in deposition that five warning signs were on the floor, the cafeteria manager was directing…
After our client attended a party at her friend’s house in Baltimore, Maryland, she exited the home and walked down a set of steps to the street. As she stepped off the last step onto the street, her foot slipped on the edge of a slightly raised area placed along the street by the county…
Our client was walking through a metro station in Washington, DC when she slipped on black mesh that had been hanging from an overpass and spread out over a large area of the metro station floor for eight days. Photographs taken at the scene showed yellow accordion gates underneath the black mesh. At trial, our…
Our client was walking in Brooklyn, Maryland when she tripped over a burr left in the road by a construction crew. As a result of the fall, she suffered a fractured left tibia and fibula, which in turn caused a pulmonary embolism. The embolism necessitated treatment from a blood specialist, greatly extending her recovery time…
Our client was browsing the meat section at grocery store in Rockville, Maryland when she slipped on BBQ sauce that was left on the floor. The BBQ sauce had been spilled only two minutes before our client slipped on it, and the store had tried to clean it in that time. The store had place…
