Trip & Falls on Curb Stops in Parking Lots

Premises Liability Jury Verdict $7,000,000

A woman was putting her 3-year-old son on a carnival amusement ride while holding onto a portable fence when she received an electrical shock. Our client was hospitalized and later developed Traumatic Dystonia, a condition that caused tremors in the hand and makes the fingers curl.

Personal Injury Verdict $3,200,000

Levinson Axelrod, P.A. Partner Kim Gozsa recently obtained a $3.2 million dollar verdict on behalf of a client who was injured in a slip and fall accident at an outlet shopping plaza in Jackson, New Jersey. The substantial jury award stems from a case in which Kim’s client slipped and fell on ice on a sidewalk at the Jackson Premium Outlets, an outlet shopping center in Jackson Township, New Jersey.

Premises Liability Jury Verdict $3,000,000

An Edison delivery man slipped on a wet floor while delivering a package. He broke his knee in the fall and suffered an injury to his spine, which in turn aggravated pre-existing conditions of incontinence and impotence which had been caused by previous injuries.

Premises Liability Jury Verdict $3,000,000

Our client, a North Plainfield man, was injured when he slipped and fell on snowy steps while exiting his building. He suffered a lumbar disc injury, requiring surgery. The jury found his landlord 100% liable for the accident for failing to clear the steps to the building.

Premises Liability Settlement $2,500,000

Our client was injured while delivering a 3,000 pound piece of equipment to defendant's premises. The defendant's employees were assisting our client in unloading the product when one of them prematurely activated the lift gate, causing the piece of equipment to fall and strike his legs. He suffered serious injuries to both legs, requiring multiple surgeries.

Premises Liability Settlement $1,800,000

The operator of an aquarium business suffered permanently disabling injuries when he fell through a deck at the defendant's house. Our client had arranged to feed the defendant's fish while he was away, and in attempting to retrieve the keys to the house from behind a bar next to the swimming pool, fell through a rotted plank, suffering serious injuries.

Premises Liability Settlement $1,250,000

Our client tripped and fell down a set of stairs at a commercial establishment due to materials that were left by the defendant at the top of the stairs. The fall resulted in our client suffering severe back and bladder injuries. Expert testimony established that the materials left on defendant's steps created a substantial tripping hazard and violated known safety standards in the industry.

Premises Liability Settlement $1,200,000

As our client stepped out of his parked his vehicle at an Ocean County mall, he slipped and fell on black ice, rendering him unconscious for a few minutes. As a result of the fall, our client sustained back and neck injuries requiring surgery, impaired vision requiring prism glasses, an inner ear injury requiring surgery, and shoulder surgery. As a result of these injuries, our client was disabled from work.

Premises Liability Settlement $1,100,000

Our client slipped and fell on a wet floor in the vestibule of the office building where she worked, sustaining an injury to her neck that required surgery. At the time, it was snowing outside and the landlord had removed the floor mat but failed to replace it before the accident occurred.

Mall Injury Verdict $935,000

Partner Brett Greiner of the Edison office secured a verdict for a Carteret woman who was injured when she slipped and fell near a decorative fountain at a shopping mall. The defense argued that the plaintiff's condition was chronic and longstanding and not related to the accident. The Middlesex County jury awarded the plaintiff and her husband over $935,000.