Personal Injury: Public Entity
Representative Cases
- Mediated trip and fall case involving dangerous condition from planter boxes blocking the path on a sidewalk in front of two retail stores in Sausalito. Plaintiff suffered a significant ankle injury. Apportionment between the City, two store owners, and property manager was key to a successful mediation.
- Handled a claim against the City and nearby supermarket for the dangerous condition created by placement of the Haight Street bus stop on the sidewalk, too far from the pathway across the street to the supermarket. The elderly plaintiff was hit by a rideshare car at night when plaintiff got off the MUNI bus, and walked across the street to buy her dinner. Plaintiff suffered severe injuries requiring surgery.
- Handled a wrongful death case against the city caused by a diseased Eucalyptus tree on an isolated public walking path to the supermarket. Two young sons’ 40-year-old single mother died when a branch of the tree fell on her head. Both sides’ tree experts agreed as to the tree being diseased and, therefore, there was liability and settlement for the policy limits.
- Mediated a case involving a grandmother who was walking in the City of Larkspur and suddenly fell when a broken manhole cover on the sidewalk gave way. She suffered a severe ankle injury requiring surgery. Defendants claimed that work being done on nearby driveways by a construction company may have caused the manhole cover to break.
- Handled a case involving a woman walking on the sidewalk in Union Square in San Francisco who tripped and fell over a divot in the sidewalk, suffering an ankle injury requiring surgery. Recent laws shifted liability from the City to the retail store owner.