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A Springfield man settled his premises liability lawsuit against Rain Forest Creations, an architectural firm, for $25,000. On Dec. 18, 2009, Gary Spivey entered the firm in Springfield seeking directions to another business, which had recently moved. While leaving the firm, he tripped and fell on a raised platform.
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Premises liability
The "known or obvious danger" defense is no longer viable under state law as a complete bar to an injured plaintiff's premises liability claim, the Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled in vacating a defense verdict. The plaintiff was injured when she slipped and fell on a wet lanai while staying at the defendant's hotel. At trial, the hotel argued that the wet lanai presented a known or obvious danger of being slippery because of a rainstorm and that the plaintiff chose to confront the danger.
JACKSON - Before Mississippi lawmakers passed tort reform that limited damages in civil litigation, Ronnie Lee Lymas' lawsuit against the store where he was shot would not have gotten much attention. That's anything but true now: The case is being characterized as a test of Mississippi's tort reform laws - hailed by business leaders and despised by plaintiffs attorneys - and a showdown over so-called premises liability issues.
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