Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

• Apartment Dwellers Should Monitor Fire Safety Compliance Measures

  Justin Madden | September 18, 2006 9:04 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  If you live in an apartment or a condo, your safety is in the hands of the building manager. How trusting can you afford to be?An article in the St. Petersburg Florida paper describes a premises liability lawsuit where two residents were killed in a condominium complex due to faulty fire extinguishing systems. A post-fire investigation revealed that valves in the sprinkler system were...

• Injured on Property of Another? You Have Rights.

  Justin Madden | August 30, 2006 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Despite the rhetoric of homeowners liability insurance companies, if you get hurt while on the property of another, you have rights to be compensated. But if you listen to the claims adjuster, who calls when you are injured, the adjuster will try to convince you otherwise.If you slip and fall on another person's property, or a business property, the cause of your fall may have been the owner's...

• Priest Abuse Must Be Prosecuted

  Jack Landskroner | August 27, 2006 9:00 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  For years the Church has protected the worst of the worst criminals; the priests and other clergy who sexually abused the children of their Parrish's. Having litigated a number of these cases we have come to see first hand how the physical abuse and corresponding emotional scarring of these children , now turned adults, continues to haunt them throughout their lives undermining their ability to...

• Safety in Gyms

  Paul Grieco | August 25, 2006 1:16 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Tampa Bay attorney Bob Carroll in his blog posting concerning a recall of defective weight lifting bars brings to our attention the need to make sure your gym and fitness club maintain proper and safe equipment. Such facilities owe their members a duty to operate a safe enviroment. Injury resulting from a failure to adhere to this duty can lead to a claim of negligence. Make sure your club...

• Inadequate Security in Parking Lots Exposes Patrons to Preventable Risk

  Jack Landskroner | July 28, 2006 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Purse snatchings, vandalism, assaults, car jackings, robberies, abduction, rape and even shootings have become a problem in the parking lots of some of America's most visible stores where there is inadequate security in place. The parking lots of Walmart,Target, Lowes, and many other retail shopping centers have become prime locations for criminal conduct. It is the responsibility of the...

• The Hidden Dangers of Childrens' Playgrounds

  Jack Landskroner | July 17, 2006 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Parents should be aware of the many hazards that present themselves on our childrens' playgrounds. Each year, more than 200,000 kids are treated in hospital ERs for playground-related injuries. While some of the hazards pose an immediate risk, others can have a cummulative long term effect. One area of concern should be the equipment and aparatus made available to the children. Recently, the...

• Pool Safety

  Paul Grieco | July 06, 2006 11:55 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  During these summer months many families and their young children seek relief from the heat in local swimming pools. Before you allow young children into the pool be aware that drowning is the second leading cause of deadly injury for children under the age of fourteen. In addition to making sure your children are properly supervised and watched while in the pool, make sure the pool has...

• Dog Bite Case turns into Million Dollar Insurance Bad Faith Settlement

  Jack Landskroner | June 30, 2006 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  When an insurance company refuses to honor its insurance contract with a policy holder, delays in paying on legitimate claims, and/or refuses to reasonably settle claims and exposes its insureds to personal financial risk, it can constitute bad faith insurance practices . This type of misconduct warrants legal action by the policy holder against his or her own insurance company in order to...

• Dog Bite Victim Lands In Month-Long Coma

  Staff Writer | June 22, 2006 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  A Wisconsin woman was in a coma Wednesday after being bitten in the leg by her neighbor's dog back on May 22nd. Pamela Hartmann suffered a broken tibia when the rottweiler-shepherd mix attacked her. She seemed fine after the bite, but she ended up being taken to the hospital for low blood pressureAccording to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:Hartmann was walking across the yard to return a...