Tag Archives: slip-and-fall

A Walmart customer who slipped on a fallen Gatorade sign won a $1.3 million verdict for his injuries. Tom Papakalodoukas, a 41-year-old Florida resident, was carrying a water bottle while shopping at a Walmart in Port St. Lucie, Fla., when he stepped on a Gatorade sign that had fallen off a display. He took a violent spill, tearing a tendon in his right bicep. Papakalodoukas underwent three surgeries and had to get an Achilles tendon from cadaver tissue inserted in …

  Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine broadcasts today’s Newsbreak, a round-up of legal news you can use. Why did the Indiana Supreme Court cut $7 million out of a jury award? You’ll find out as Larry reports on an Indiana man whose wife died a painful death due to medical malpractice. You’ll learn about the effects of tort reform, an anti-consumer law. You be the judge of whether the outcome was unfair. The Newsbreak also visits a wild party in Ohio. …

A man who fell and broke his back on the golf course of a country club won a $6 million jury award. Amar Sappal was a guest of his son, who was a member of the Mid-Pacific Country Club in Hawaii. Sappal was standing on the illuminated first tee area with another guest at around 11:00 p.m. on a June night in 2009 when the country club’s automatic sprinkler system went off. Sappal was suddenly knocked backwards down a slope …

Ronald Bayer was 36-years-old when he took a fall while on the job that changed his life forever. In 2007, Bayer was building an Illinois warehouse for the electronics firm Panduit when, while walking on an iron beam, he tripped. Bayer fell 20 feet and landed head first. He remains paralyzed. Bayer’s attorney, Clifford Horwitz, argued there were studs sticking out of the iron beams that caused him to trip and no harnessing equipment had been installed which could have …

    Doctor’s assistant wins $168 million in damages for sex harassment A physician’s assistant who was subject to filthy conversations by doctors and staff about their sex lives, unwanted sexual advances and touching and other demeaning comments won a whopping $168 million verdict in her sex harassment lawsuit against the hospital. Ani Chopourian worked as a surgical assistant in the cardiovascular unit of Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, Calif. According to her lawsuit, she complained repeatedly about the inappropriate …