Alabama
Supreme Court of Alabama · 2025
Summary judgment for rehab facility affirmed
Betty Callens, 81, had hip replacement surgery in September 2019 and went to a skilled nursing facility, where she said she had to get herself to the bathroom, slipped on water and fractured her left hip again and her left femur.
fracture in Alabama →Arkansas
Arkansas Court of Appeals · 2005
$58,828.53 verdict reversed
In 1997 Sharon Smith, 23 and small in stature, bought a month of groceries at the Kroger in Helena.
fracture in Arkansas →Connecticut
Connecticut Appellate Court · 2019
$416,214 verdict, reduced 25% to about $312,160
A motorcyclist was thrown from his bike when it was struck by an unmarked Hartford police car with no lights or siren.
fracture in Connecticut →Georgia
Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2022
Summary judgment for rink reversed
Julie Luckett was coasting around a skating rink when her right foot slipped on something wet; as she fell, her ankle twisted and broke.
fracture in Georgia →Illinois
Illinois Appellate Court, First District · 2006
Defense verdict reversed, new trial
A resident tripped over a pneumatic hose lying across a drive she had used countless times and was admitted to hospital with multiple fractures of her left wrist, a dislocated right shoulder, and a facial fracture.
fracture in Illinois →Kentucky
Kentucky Supreme Court · 2010
$155,409.70 verdict upheld
A paramedic who had brought about 400 patients through the same emergency entrance tripped over an unmarked curb while attending a critically ill patient, fracturing her hip and spraining her wrist.
fracture in Kentucky →Maryland
Court of Appeals of Maryland · 2013
Defense judgment affirmed
In August 2008, 20 year old James Coleman, an accomplished player, was volunteering as an assistant coach for a youth team practicing on a Howard County middle school field, because the association did not have enough fields of its own.
fracture in Maryland →Minnesota
Minnesota Supreme Court · 2014
$224,200.70 verdict; diocese pays its 50%
At a 2005 event at Holy Cross Parish School, Richard Staab pushed his wife Alice’s wheelchair through a doorway and over an unmarked five inch drop, and she fell and broke her leg.
fracture in Minnesota →Nebraska
Nebraska Supreme Court · 2019
$260,000 judgment
Arlene Pantano broke her hip when she tripped on an entryway rug at a Village Inn.
fracture in Nebraska →New Jersey
New Jersey Supreme Court · 2021
$1,150,000 settlement with the property owners
A 45 year old teacher tripped and fell leaving a restaurant and fractured her left ankle.
fracture in New Jersey →North Dakota
North Dakota Supreme Court · 2012
$285,000 medical costs found; nothing recovered
In 2004 a 15 year old student at Discovery Middle School in Fargo was seriously injured practicing a bike stunt in the school auditorium for a history class event.
fracture in North Dakota →Oregon
Oregon Supreme Court · 2020
$10,500,000 noneconomic award; cap unconstitutional as applied
A garbage truck struck William Busch as he crossed a street in downtown Portland, and his leg had to be amputated.
fracture in Oregon →South Carolina
South Carolina Court of Appeals · 2020
Directed verdict reversed
In August 2014 Christine LeFont, a trade show vendor, parked in the employee lot behind the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, walked toward the building and tripped over a small pothole.
fracture in South Carolina →Utah
Utah Court of Appeals · 2024
Summary judgment for driver affirmed
In September 2017, a driver turned left in front of the van carrying Rodriguez and her child, causing a collision.
fracture in Utah →Washington
Supreme Court of Washington · 1996
Summary judgment reversed; trial ordered
More than seven inches of snow fell in Spokane on 27 November 1984, and the Employment Security lot was plowed but apparently not sanded.
fracture in Washington →
