Category: Premises Liability

Summertime is rampant with home injuries and accidents. With fires from lightning strikes, burglaries in our empty homes, visitors falling on stairs, and appliances being overused, our safety becomes compromised if we don’t take the proper precautions to ensure everything is in order. This makes it the perfect time to

When the temperatures and humidity rise well beyond the norm in many parts of the country over the summer, people become more conservative with overrunning their air-conditioning. In some apartments and housing buildings, the climate is controlled by a maintenance department so that everyone does not adjust it “on” and

You think nothing of it as you help a friend or parent with some spring cleaning by taking care of weeds, brush, debris, and old furniture. You load those items in the car, hold yard sales, make trips to the dump, and store items in the attic for next season.

With the thousands of high rise buildings in and around New York and other large metropolitan areas, there is no way for some to avoid the use of elevators on a daily basis. Coupled with leading a comfortable and sedentary lifestyle, many of us just don’t want to take the

In a rare case of on-the-job hazardous conditions and work clothing requirements, a machinist in an industrial plant blamed his ailments on a severe blister caused by wearing steel-toed boots required for his job. Because he was required to wear the boots he filed worker’s compensation for this injury. The

Have you ever found yourself reading about a recalled item and discovered the recall may apply to you? If so, you may ask how you can find out more information, or be alerted to other recalls. Here are some ways to stay up to date on recalled items, and what

Children are injured on public and at-home playgrounds yearly, from minor scratches and strangulations, to concussions and amputations, to brain damage and fatal falls. In the past, improper ground surfaces were often to blame for playground injuries prior to the establishment of the development by the Consumer Product Safety Commission

”It’s not going to happen to me, right? Besides, I have homeowners and auto insurance.” But, what if it does happen, and you’re faced now with filing a claim through a policy that was purchased twenty years ago? Did you have the coverage required? When the unexpected causes us to

The place where we most often seek refuge, our “safe” haven, is actually the place where we have the most risk for injury. You guessed it: Our home. Familiarity breeds carelessness in the form of falls on stairs and in dimly-lit hallways, burns from unsafe kitchen conditions, slips in bathtubs

Falling down steps is not an uncommon occurrence or unusual type of accident. It happens every day to people given the thousands of steps found overall in apartment buildings, subways, office buildings, private homes, commercial establishments, etc. The law is rather clear in a case where plaintiff falls and (1)