Examples of successful premises liability claims resolved by Faraci Lange
Faraci Lange has successfully resolved thousands of cases for clients since 1968. Here are some summaries of just a small percentage of the premises liability cases that we have handled successfully.
Faraci Lange successfully resolved a claim on behalf of a Canandaigua woman and her husband after she fell on ice on the driveway of her apartment complex. The driveway was defectively designed to allow water to pool and not drain off, such that when the temperature dropped below freezing ice would form in the depression. On the day of the incident there was a light dusting of snow that obscured the ice and the woman fell and suffered a severe patellar fraction. The case was resolved with the help of an expert architect who was able to show the defect in the construction of the driveway which caused the ice to form.
Faraci Lange successfully tried to verdict a case for a Long lsland man who sustained a serious knee injury when he fell in the handicapped parking area of nearby College. The young man had had knee surgery from which he was recuperating and attended physical therapy three times a week at the College. Because he was on crutches, the College gave him a handicapped parking permit and directed him to the spaces behind the gymnasium. Several days after a snow fall, he parked in the handicapped space to which he was directed only to find that it had been completely neglected by the snow removal staff. The young man tore the meniscus in his uninjured knee when he fell in the icy lot.
Faraci Lange successfully resolved a case during jury selection brought on behalf of the Estate and surviving wife and children of a Rochester man who slipped and fell on existing black ice in the parking lot of the defendant hotel where he had been staying. He struck the ground with his head and died as a consequence of a brain injury. The claim was based on the fact that the hotel had notice of the dangerous condition and did nothing to remedy it.
Faraci Lange successfully resolved a case brought on behalf of a man who had slipped and fallen on some loose floor tiles in a gas station where he had just made a purchase. He sustained soft-tissue injuries, which were superimposed on preexisting degenerative arthritis and spinal stenosis, which had not been causing any symptoms or disabilities. The combination of injury superimposed on the preexisting condition caused a chronic permanent pain syndrome to develop, which significantly disabled the plaintiff. The claim was based on the fact that the condition of loose tiles had existed for a long period of time and had not been corrected.
Faraci Lange Faraci Lange successfully prosecuted a claim on behalf of a Greece resident who sustained serious injuries as a result of a defective and dangerous entryway to a public building. As a result of the dangerous entryway, the person fell and sustained a cervical fracture.
Faraci Lange successfully resolved a case for a Victor woman who severely injured her sacroiliac joint when she fell in a newly renovated local arena because it was not constructed in accordance with the renovation plans and specifications. While walking with her children on a crowded walkway she fell into a deep drop off immediately adjacent to the walkway. The renovation plans and specifications had no such drop off because, as the defendants admitted, it would create a falling hazard. As a result of her injury, she has constant pain and is disabled from the career she loved.
