Anthony Waring was a worker for a company that owned and operated an assisted-living facility. Waring was in the process of retrieving a snow shovel from a shed on the facility’s grounds. He fell on snow and ice as he was walking down the ramp leading from the shed. Waring was 22…
The plaintiff, Mark Zimmerman, 44, lived in a three-story building. The building came with a deck attached to an exterior stairwell. As Zimmerman was leaving for work, he bent over to pick something up while holding on to the deck railing. The railing collapsed. Zimmerman fell three stories to the ground, fracturing his…
The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether the “baseball rule” applies to an eye injury caused accidentally by the Kansas City Royals’ mascot Sluggerrr, who flung a foil-wrapped hot dog that struck the left eye of John Coomer. Although this seemingly harmless act would ordinarily be of no consequence, the foiled…
Marbella Smilovitz, 51, brought her car to the defendant McGrath City Honda for repairs to fix a flat tire. It was July 31, 2010. The dealership is located at 6720 W. Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill. The McGrath employees brought Smilovitz to her car in the service area to show her…
On April 10, 2010, Daniel Coile, 33, went to Shepherd’s Closet, a store, to pick up a desk purchased by his mother. Coile was told that he would need to load the desk into his car by way of a loading dock at the rear of the store. Shepherd’s Closet or…
A $5 million jury verdict was handed down in the first of the federal multidistrict litigation cases involving patients claiming injury from the body scan contrast agent gadolinium. The Ohio jury found GE Healthcare chose not to provide the necessary health risk warnings with patients with impaired kidney function when gadolinium…
Justin Hasty, 24, was a Wonder Bread deliveryman making a delivery to the Jewel Store in Aurora, Ill., when he slipped and fell in an employee break room. Hasty was directed to the room by a Jewel employee. Before this incident, the break room was being stripped and waxed by…
On Sept. 30, 2006, Kathleen Nelson slipped and fell on a wet floor while walking down a hallway at the Merchandise Mart. She was employed there in one of the showrooms. The floor was wet from water that had dripped from a mop used by a maintenance worker employed by…
The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a decision by a Cook County Circuit Court judge regarding the plaintiff’s failure to offer evidence to satisfy an element of a cause of action. In that respect, the trial judge entered summary judgment, which has now been affirmed by the higher court. In…