Personal Injury Law

Chicago Slip and Fall: Two Illinois Personal Injury Lawsuits Seek Judgments Over $50,000

Slip/trip and fall accidents are much more dangerous than they sound. A person who slips and falls or trips and falls can sustain serious personal injuries and permanent disabilities. Last week, two people filed Illinois premises liability lawsuits over injuries they sustained in separate fall accidents.

In the first Illinois slip and fall case, Louis Young is suing Wal-Mart because he claims he slid on a slippery substance that was on a Highland store floor on May 26, 2007. Young says that, as a result, he injured his right knee, foot, and ankle, as well as his left hip. He also sustained a disability that he claims has prevented him from attending to his daily responsibilities and tasks. Young says that his slip and fall injuries have led to a great deal of pain and he has accrued medical expenses.

Young is accusing Wal-Mart of negligence, including failing to properly maintain the store floor so that it was in a reasonably safe condition, failing to remove the slippery substance from the floor, failing to make sure the floor had a non-slip surface, and neglecting to warn him that there was a slippery substance on the ground.

In an unrelated Illinois trip and fall lawsuit, Juanita Osborn is suing Tri-Mor Properties for her personal injuries. The company owns the bingo hall where she claims she tripped on parking blocks and fell as she was leaving the building on December 25.

Osborn says she wouldn?t have tripped over the block if the defendant had installed adequate lighting in the parking lot and she had been able to see the obstruction. She contends that she sustained serious permanent injuries from her Illinois fall accident.

Premises Liability
Under Illinois premises liability law, the owners of private, commercial, or public properties can be held accountable for personal injuries if someone is involved in a trip and fall, a slip and fall, a stump and fall, or a step and fall accident on the premise.

Wal-Mart sued over customer's slip on clear substance, The Record, May 27, 2009

Woman sues bingo hall owner over trip in parking lot, The Record, May 27, 2009

Related Web Resources:
Premises Liability, Justia

Slip and Fall, Nolo

Full post as published by Chicago Injury Attorney Blog on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).