Like any other gas station or convenience store, Wawa may be liable for accidents resulting in personal injury. If you or a loved one is seriously injured while visiting any of the 90 plus Wawa stores in Florida, you are strongly urged to speak with a Florida Wawa accident lawyer…
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Restaurant Sued for Swallowed Broken Shell – The Reasonable Expectation Test
A Buca di Beppo restaurant was sued by a customer who was seriously injured when he swallowed a broken mussel shell. The trial court in Broward County initially granted the defendant Buca’s motion for summary judgment which was reversed by the Fourth District Court of Appeal based on the application…
Walmart Chooses Profit over Customer Safety
Miami premise liability lawyers know that Walmart measures everything. They know their numbers. Consider this: Sales per Walmart employee is $236,804 – a 23% increase over the last decade It has more than 1 million retail workers on full-time and part-time shifts. There is one Walmart worker for each 524…
Target’s Wet Look Floors Are an Accident Waiting to Happen
What is the one thing you notice when you go shopping at any Target store? The shiny floors and it isn’t a coincidence. At the highest corporate levels of Target, a decision was made to sacrifice consumer safety in favor of bright clean look that would entice customers to shop…
The Chinese Menu Defenses In Premises Liability Trials
Most of us have ordered the specials at our favorite Chinese restaurant. You get to pick and choose from a variety of choices. Usually you pick a soup from column A. Then another choice for appetizer from Column B. Then yet another choice for the main course from Column C.…
How to Represent Yourself in a Slip and Fall Injury Claim
Filing a Slip and Fall Claim in Miami without an Attorney First things first. You are not required to have a Miami slip and fall attorney to file a claim for injuries from a slip and fall case. You can represent yourself. You cannot represent someone else unless you are…
Jury Divides Fault on Shopping Cart Injury Accident in Miami
A Miami jury split the fault in a Miami premises liability personal injury case involving a shopping cart. The plaintiff claimed Home Depot was negligent because it allowed a threshold to exist which caught a shopping cart the plaintiff was pushing. When the cart got stuck, it jerked back and…
BROKEN STAIRS, BROKEN DREAMS
You have to take the stairs. You have no option. The stairs are damaged and you try your best. You fall and you are seriously injured. You aren’t sure what happened or even why. You just know that you are really hurt and don’t know what to do. Is the…
HOW CAN I GET THE VIDEO OF MY SLIP AND FALL?
If you slip and fall at Publix, Target, Walmart or most large retailers, chances are your fall was videotaped by a store surveillance system. You probably think this is a good thing because then everyone can see what happened. Not so fast. Most major retailers have closed circuit video…
Something Fell on Me – Can I Sue?
If something fell on you, and you got hurt, it might be hard to prove someone else’s negligence caused that problem. For example, maybe someone stocked a shelf and then left an item really close to the edge, too close. Then, when someone lightly bumped the shelf, it fell on…