Slip and fall incidents can dramatically change a victim’s life, producing injuries ranging from fractures of wrists and hips to major head injuries. Most fall injuries fall within the ambit of so-called premises liability law, which has its own special requirements – it’s not enough to snap a picture of the dangerous circumstance on your…
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless gas that’s highly toxic to humans. CO poisoning is responsible for hundreds of deaths every year. Alarmingly, it often happens with little or no warning. By the time you realize something is wrong, it may be too late. So how can you protect yourself (and your loved ones)…
A West Hollywood bar was recently held civilly liable for the sexual assault of a female patron. The woman, who is a 43-year-old news reporter, alleged that she was assaulted by an employee of the Here Lounge in 2009. A Santa Monica jury awarded the woman $5.42 million finding that the bar’s negligence contributed to…
SFGate reports that two workers suffered life threatening injuries yesterday when scaffolding collapsed at a San Francisco high rise under construction. Coincidentally, just last week Walkup partner Matt Davis settled a case on the first day of trial on behalf of a woman badly injured by substandard scaffolding. He says that yesterday’s tragedy was almost…
San Francisco is the fourth most dangerous city in the country for mailman dog bites, according to recent rankings by the Postal Service. The USPS releases rankings of the most dangerous cities for dog bites to promote National Dog Bite Prevention Week. The USPS says that 5,879 of its employees were attacked in 2012 and…
A popular San Francisco restaurant was recently ordered by a jury to pay $134,956 to a patron who was severely injured after he fell down a flight of poorly lit stairs. This is one of many premises liability lawsuits being filed against Northern California restaurants as a result of a growing trend of restaurants packing…
A California hotel guest recently won a $38.6M jury verdict against a hotel in a premises liability case. The hotel guest was at a Newport Beach Inn when he fell over a second story walkway railing and onto the parking lot below. The guest suffered catastrophic personal injuries including brain damage. The evidence, in this…
Federal regulators have cited a California dock company after workplace safety violations led to the wrongful death of an employee. An investigation regarding the working conditions at the Long Beach dock was launched after a dockworker was killed by a 40-foot-long shipping container. The massive shipping container fell from the stack of containers during loading…
An employee at a Santa Fe Springs seafood processing plant was killed recently after being cooked alive in an oven. The Contra Costa Times reports that an employee of Bumble Bee tuna processing plant was killed in a steam pressure cooker. The 62-year-old man was a father of six. His family was upset by the…
In our last post, we discussed a slip-and-fall case brought by a jewelry store’s independent contractor after he slipped on jewelry cleaning solution and fell in the store’s employee-only area. Evidence in this premises liability case indicates that the jewelry cleaning solution was kept in a 5-gallon bucket in the break room, which was accessible…
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