Slip & Fall verdicts & settlements

After a neurosurgeon slipped on a wet hospital pantry floor and developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy that ended his surgical career, an Evansville jury found St. Mary's Medical Center fully at fault and awarded $16.95 million, a verdict the Indiana Court of Appeals later affirmed.

A Kern County jury awarded William Kidd and his wife Elaine $16.2 million after he slipped at a Bakersfield El Pollo Loco and suffered a brain injury that later required surgery.

A Clark County jury held Lowe's responsible after Kelly Hendrickson slipped on liquid draining from store planters, fractured her skull, and permanently lost her senses of taste and smell.

A San Diego County jury ordered Starbucks to pay roughly $7.5 million after chiropractor Anthony Zaccaglin slipped on a freshly mopped store floor, struck his head, and suffered a brain injury that ended his career.

A Colorado jury awarded $6,945,040 to a 60-year-old shopper who slipped on solvent residue at a Kohl's self-checkout and developed Functional Neurological Disorder, after the store's expert accused her of faking her symptoms.

An 11-day jury trial in Los Angeles ended with a $6.68 million verdict for a 56-year-old customer who slipped on a single grape in the condiments aisle of an El Monte Food4Less, sustaining serious spinal injuries.

A Los Angeles County jury awarded wedding photographer Payman Heravi a gross $6.06 million after he broke his arm and tore his shoulder on a tree-root sidewalk uplift the City of Los Angeles had left unrepaired for years, then split fault evenly and cut his recovery to about $3.03 million.

A woman who slipped on grease in a common area shared by her employer and LAVO, a nightclub-restaurant then owned by a Madison Square Garden Entertainment subsidiary, suffered neck and back injuries requiring multiple surgeries and settled her case for $5.3 million in 2023.

A Miami-Dade jury returned a $4,877,775 verdict for Juan Del Valle, who slipped on water from a leaking produce refrigeration unit at a Winn-Dixie in Miami Lakes and underwent three spinal surgeries, leaving him with permanent hardware in his spine.

A Palm Beach County jury awarded $3 million to Darrell Phillips, a handyman who fractured his humerus and suffered permanent radial nerve damage after tripping over wire mesh concealed in a grassy area behind a convenience store where he had been hired to repair the beer-cooler AC unit.

A Denver jury returned a $2.1 million verdict for George Hodge after he slipped on ice at a storage unit and suffered a complete retinal detachment that permanently ended useful vision in his right eye.

A federal jury found that a snow-covered crack in a Family Video parking lot caused Rosemarie Waddy's broken ankle, awarding $2 million before a 15 percent fault finding cut her recovery to about $1.7 million.

A Lexington County jury awarded $2 million to Donna Roland, 60, after she tripped on a three-inch gap in a county sidewalk and broke her arm in two places while dropping off an absentee ballot during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Boise jury awarded more than $1.66 million to a commercial tenant who suffered permanent brain damage after falling on improperly installed stairs, a verdict affirmed on appeal by the Idaho Supreme Court.

A Tucson jury awarded $1.5 million to a woman who slipped on water leaking from a BCI Coca-Cola refrigerator at a grocery store, after the bottling company rejected a $150,000 settlement offer.

A Kings County jury awarded $1.24 million to a 64-year-old medical massage therapist who fractured both wrists when she tripped and fell outside her Brooklyn apartment building.

A Kings County jury found the corporate owner of a Brooklyn residential building liable for a dangerous condition and awarded the injured plaintiff $1.1 million.

A New York jury awarded $850,000 to a plaintiff who was injured in a trip-and-fall on the premises of Montefiore Medical Center, finding the hospital liable for a dangerous condition it failed to correct.

A Dallas County jury found Taco Bell 100% liable and awarded Deandre Gilkey $756,794 after store surveillance showed an employee had noticed a floor puddle 34 seconds before Gilkey slipped, fell, and ultimately underwent back surgery.

Louis Hollingsworth secured a $400,000 jury verdict for a Tucson woman who slipped and fell entering a Safeway store, netting $360,000 after a 10% comparative-fault finding against her.

A Marion County jury found Indianapolis landlords 85 percent at fault for a tenant's fall down a rental staircase that had no code-required handrail, awarding her $121,770 for permanent ankle and nerve damage.

In November 2019, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge overruled demurrers filed by Lyft and the City of Santa Monica, finding that an 88-year-old woman who sustained five pelvic fractures after tripping over a Lyft scooter in a posted no-deployment zone had stated viable negligence and public-nuisance claims against both defendants.