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Plaintiff was visiting her friend at the hospital when she slipped and fell on a puddle of water in the patient’s bathroom. Plaintiff claimed that a nurse had been cleaning a commode in the bathroom and spilled water on the floor, thus creating a dangerous condition. The plaintiff further alleged that the nurse failed to […]

Mr. Petka obtained a defense verdict for a local hospital following a premises liability jury trial in Philadelphia. After discovering liquid on the ground stretching across two hallways, in a four hallway intersection, an employee of the hospital began warning visitors of the liquid. However, when the plaintiff approached the intersection in question, several other […]

At a contentious premises liability trial, plaintiff claimed to have fallen down an interior staircase at a doctor’s office. Plaintiff asserted that the staircase had insufficient lighting, an insufficient and dangerous handrail, an insufficient and dangerous landing, and slippery stair treads. In an effort to support her claim, plaintiff produced the live testimony of a […]

Plaintiff, a 61 year old certified nursing aid, was leaving the hospital after visiting her terminally ill husband’s bedside when she tripped and fell down a cement staircase at the main entrance of the hospital. Plaintiff claimed that her foot got caught in a 6 inch hole surrounding the handrail of the stairs. Plaintiff was […]

In this action, a 53 year old Plaintiff alleged that he fell on Defendant Hospital’s property due a patch of ice and snow on its sidewalk two days after a blizzard. After the fall the plaintiff presented to an orthopedic surgeon for right elbow pain. Ten years before the fall, the plaintiff had a right […]