a fall in 2011<\/a> in which a woman suffered injuries to a wrist and knee. The injuries were so severe that she required surgery and underwent six months of physical therapy.<\/p>\nAccording to court records, she was crossing a street from her parked car when she stumbled in a depression. The chasm ran the entire length of the block and was 28 inches long, 8 inches wide and at least 3 inches deep where the woman fell.<\/p>\n
The record further shows that public works officials knew about the problem as far back as 2008. They also agreed at trial that it posed a threat to pedestrians. Still, the trial judge and an appeals court ruled against the woman in her quest for compensation.<\/p>\n
Judges pointed to the fact that the woman had essentially jaywalked from her car as one reason for rejecting her claim. The implication was that she should have walked to a crosswalk before crossing the street.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the courts ruled that the road’s condition, while dangerous, didn’t rise to being “palpably unreasonable” because cars could drive on it safely.<\/p>\n
It’s important to note that no two cases are alike and the outcome of one does not predict the outcome of another. A free consultation with experienced legal counsel is how to assess if you have a case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Courts set high bar for finding government negligence There was a time when suing the government for injuries suffered due to slips, trips or falls in public areas was a non-starter. The theory of sovereign immunity made such claims nearly impossible to pursue. As we noted in a post last year, however, that changed with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40491,"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/40491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levilawny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}