Fall in Parking Garage Causes Fractured Leg and Need for Surgery

Settlement Amount: $250,000.00
Settlement Date: 2/1998
Attorney: Howard D. Mishkind

Description of Case: Plaintiff fell in the interior stairway leading to Defendant’s parking garage. Defendant had recently mopped the area and the water froze and Plaintiff fell sustaining a fracture of her right leg requiring surgery. Defendant’s employee violated company policy by using a wet mop instead of drying agents and in failing to place warning cones in the area.

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