Premises Liability
Negligent retail stores, restaurants and other businesses often create dangerous conditions that lead to injuries for their customers and guests. We help people recover for these injuries when we can show that the owner or operator of the business did not take adequate care to maintain a safe environment.
Below are some of our notes on recent cases involving accidents and injuries that have occurred because of dangerous or poorly maintained buildings, residences and other properties in Georgia.
Last week, a Gwinnett County jury awarded $2.3 million to the victim of a slip-and-fall at a Douglasville Kroger. While the accident itself was not strange as far as slip-and-falls go, after Craig Walters slipped in the store in 2008, at least one Kroger employee decided to get rid of the evidence. Because of the company’s actions, an unusual trial was held where the jury was not actually asked to determine whether or not Kroger had been negligent.
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In June, an executive who was seriously injured in a slip-and-fall accident in Atlanta was awarded $3.6 million for her injuries by a Fulton County jury. The award was $900,000 more than the plaintiff’s lawyers had asked for at trial.
Christine Garland—then an executive for Auto Trader—was attending a sales conference at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel in Dunwoody in early January 2007 when she was injured. Because a lobby area where conference attendees were arriving was too hot, staff of ...
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An 80-year-old Florida woman, Anne Felton, died on September 7 after succumbing to a carbon dioxide leak at a Pooler, Georgia McDonald’s. Authorities believe carbon dioxide used to make soft drinks leaked into the women’s bathroom causing Felton’s death.
Emergency personnel were called to the McDonald’s shortly after Ms. Felton and Carol Berry, a 56-year-old resident of Florida, were found unconscious on the bathroom floor. An investigation revealed that a line used to funnel off excessive carbon dioxide into the ...
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A Fulton County jury awarded Miriam Hancock of Norcross $1.14 million after she tripped and fell on loose concrete near Underground Atlanta. The fall caused Hancock to suffer permanent damage to her foot.
Hancock was crossing the intersection at Alabama Street and Pryor Street when her heel became caught in the sidewalk. Her fall required several surgeries to repair her ankle. Hancock’s lawyers sued the City of Atlanta arguing that Atlanta knew of the dangerous ...
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In 2005, a Cumming man shopping at a Marietta Home Depot was injured in a forklift accident. On Wednesday, a Cobb County jury awarded the man and his wife $1.5 million for injuries.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story.
The complaint alleged that Larry Reece, 58, was at the Marietta store when a stack of plywood fell from a forklift. The wood fell from more than 20 feet and crashed down onto a barricade. The barricade then ...
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