Sledding Accident
Serious injuries are often the consequence of winter conditions. A man slid into a parking sign while sledding at a city park in Sioux City, Iowa, injuring his spinal cord and causing him to be paralyzed from the waist down. As a result he lost his job, and his family lost their home. In settlements with the city and its insurance company he has recovered over two and a half million dollars. Premises liability cases are almost always difficult to prove, because the person seeking compensation has to show that the owner of the property knew of the dangerous condition and failed to take proper action to correct it. In this case it would have had to have been demonstrated that the city provided its park to the public for the purpose of winter sledding and that the parking sign was situated in a position where there was a reasonably clear danger that sleds would collide with it, and then further that the plaintiff could not have avoided the collision through the application of reasonable care. Many plaintiffs’ cases in Maine have been lost, especially in cases of falls on ice, because juries tend to think that dangerous ice and snow conditions are a part of life in this state, and people should be careful where they are stepping. Nevertheless these cases often involve serious injuries, and Lowry & Associates has been successful in recovering many thousands of dollars for Maine residents who have been the victims of dangerous conditions caused by ice and snow.
Category: Unsafe Premises
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