Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall) | InjuryBoard New Hampshire

The state of New Hampshire has a strict law concerning dog bites and attacks by domestic animals. Specifically the law says:NHRSA 466:19 Liability of Owner or Keeper. - Any person to whom or to whose property, including sheep, lambs, fowl, or other domestic creatures, damage may be occasioned by a dog not owned or kept by such person shall be entitled to recover damages from the person who owns,...

I just got a call from my partner who is on trial over in the federal district court. The lawyers for the insurance company are making all kinds of noise about medicaid paying the medical bills and they shouldn't have to, etc. He asked me to write up some closing comments he might share with the jury on this issue. And I thought I might share some of those comments with you. If you are covered...

A woman has filed suit against owners of a parking lot where she slipped and fell on a pile of ice and snow. On January 18, Connie Taylor, filed a lawsuit against Jim Smith and O.V. Smith and Sons. According to the suit, Taylor slipped and fell on the ice in the parking lot owned by O.V. Smith and Sons.The lawsuit states Taylor sustained injuries of a sacrum/coccygeal fracture, right wrist...

Many people ask us about their rights when they are bitten by a dog. We are asked this question because several years ago one of our clients was attacked by a pit bull. The people responsible refused to help the victim. After a trial by jury the client was awarded 2.1 million dollars. This was the largest verdict of this kind in the country. It made national news. As a result we are often...

A business cannot be sued in a slip-and-fall case unless the injured patron is able to prove that the store employees were aware or should have known about the condition, ruled the Arizona Court of Appeals.The judges threw out a claim by David Contreras Sr., an employee of a liquor distributing company.In 2005, Contreras sued after he said he slimed on a slimy blue substance while on delivery to...

The Kingston police chief fatally shot and killed a pit-bull that had bitten another person and lunged toward him.State Police say, Police Chief Donald Briggs, while responding to a call, saw a pit-bull attacking another dog that was leashed in the backyard. He tried to get the pit-bull off from the other dog. While trying to get the pit-bull off the dog, Briggs learned the pit-bull had...

The Cornell University police are looking for the owner of a dog who bit a university staff member that now faces the prospect of precautionary rabies injections if it can't be determined the dog is properly vaccinated.Friday at approximately 10:21 am, the Cornell University Police Dept. received a complaint of a dot bite. The complainant, a male Cornell University staff member was bitten on...

A teenager is in jail and a woman is in the hospital with a dog bite -- after a carjacking that went very wrong.Belleville police say the incident started at 3:40a.m. Tuesday when a pickup truck driver saw what appeared to be a woman in need of help standing on the side of the road, waving her arms. The driver pulled over and opened the door to the woman. At that time a teenage male jumped into...