Case: Trip and Fall
Counsel: David Owens
Result: Defense Verdict for Housing Fund Development Corporation
Partner David Owens recently obtained a defense verdict on behalf of our client, a housing fund development corporation, in a trip and fall case tried in Supreme Court, Kings County. The plaintiff alleged that she sustained serious and permanent injuries as a result of a trip and fall over an oil delivery hose that was placed across the sidewalk of our client’s building. She claimed that as a result of this incident she sustained injuries to her lumbar spine resulting in her requiring surgical fusion to her lumbar spine as well as arthroscopic surgeries to the shoulder and knee. At trial David successfully established that our client was not responsible for the placement of the hose and had no notice of the time when the oil delivery was to be performed. The jury returned a verdict in favor of our client within 30 minutes.