A significant focus of our work is in premises liability and personal injury litigation involving shopping centers, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, casinos, apartments and other large residential and commercial properties.
We have helped owners and managers successfully deal with a wide range of negligence claims, including failure to provide adequate security, failure to warn and failure to adequately maintain property in everything from slip and falls to murder by a gang member. We routinely consult on high-exposure cases involving wrongful deaths, catastrophic injuries, traumatic brain injuries, fractures, amputations, paralysis, soft tissue injuries and claims of PTSD.
We utilize specific psychological concepts, including attribution theory and counterfactual thinking, to help focus jurors on the plaintiff’s choices and mistakes. Our goal is to give clients the most realistic assessment possible of their risks of going to trial.
Representative Premises Liability Matters:
• A case against a casino originating from an unanchored poolside umbrella that was carried by a gust of wind and struck a guest on the back of her head, causing her to fall forward onto the ground.
• A premises liability case involving a hotel guest, who claimed the hotel failed to provide adequate signage, and dove into a shallow pool, rendering him a quadriplegic.
• A wrongful death of a suspected shoplifter who was apprehended by security guards in the parking lot of a department store, and pinned to the ground in extreme heat.
• A case involving veterinarian who was left a paraplegic in a ski accident, and claimed the ski resort failed to provide proper warning signs on their ski slopes.
• A wrongful death case for a ski resort, involving a collision between a skier and snowboarder, for failing to provide proper signage and fencing.
• A wrongful death case involving a hotel guest who fell out of an open window.
• A premises liability case involving a contractor who was onsite installing equipment in a theater, and fell into a pit onstage severely injuring himself.
• A plaintiff, who was a paraplegic and able to walk with a cane prior to the accident, was using hotel stairs when the hand railing collapsed, causing him to fall and thereby confining him to wheelchair.
• A premises case involving family members who sustained multiple severe injuries from an electrified metal staircase handrail.
• A property owner who was sued for failing to put an assailant, who was a known threat, on a no-trespass list, which led to the rape and murder of a woman in an apartment complex.
• A female guest at a hotel property who was sexually assaulted in her room after another guest obtained a key from hotel staff.
• A case involving a mother and her two children who were held at gunpoint, and the mother was sexually assaulted in her car while parked in a hotel garage.
• A plaintiff who was a victim of robbery, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and shot with a deadly weapon, resulting in severe permanent injuries, including paralysis, at an apartment complex.
• A couple whose daughter was abducted from the parking garage at her place of employment, taken to her bank to withdraw funds, then raped and stabbed to death.
• Under-age siblings who were detained and starved by their father at a residential hotel, resulting in the death of one of the children.
• A premises and product case against a fitness gym and equipment manufacturer involving a plaintiff who claimed TBI when improperly maintained exercise equipment broke and fell on his head.
• A plaintiff who slipped on a freshly waxed floor in the hospital and claimed permanent disabilities and total inability to work.
• A department store employee, who slipped and fell in the food court of the mall where she worked, and claimed it left her with severe chronic pain and psychological struggles, including suicidal behaviors.
• A lawsuit involving a customer who collided with a delivery pallet in a grocery store, and claimed extensive permanent injuries including a traumatic brain injury.
• A sexual assault on the plaintiff by another resident in their rental complex owned and managed by the defendants.