If I read this correctly the city residents will pay for all of this.
The city is 1/2 liable and that is about thier deductable, and the apartment owners will raise rent but the low income residents will get additional subsidies.
If someone hires a pressure washing company remains to be seen.
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LOL !
I hope the “wrong sort” of delivery person does not fall on my property...and his nest act is to contact a slip-n-fall lawyer.
Personal responsibility is so quaint.
“According to the complaint, Mettler Auld fell on a “notoriously dangerous” stretch of sidewalk “
if she knew it was a problem as her complaint seems to read, then does she not have common sense to avoid it? or was she trying to get injured?
Is there a picture of the sidewalk?
So much for “watch were you are walking”...
Just like when many of us were growing up and had drilled in our heads “look both ways before crossing the street” (which also applied to walking across the lane in front of a store). Now - nobody looks - and its pretty much ALWAYS the driver’s fault, even when someone steps out where they couldn’t have been seen - staring at the screen their phone...
I’m really really fatigued by the utter lack of personal accountability in our nation...
From another article: “ Prior to the fall, Ms. Mettler Auld was an elite ultra-distance athlete and professional fitness coach. She had competed in 14 Ironman races, qualified twice for the Ironman World Championships (top 2% of her age division), competed in 100-mile races, and won the women’s division of multiple 25K and 50-mile ultra-marathons.”
She ruptured both quadriceps tendons in a ground-level fall while walking? I’m sure her knees were in perfect condition after a million miles of running.
No, I haven’t seen the evidence from the case.
You’d think somebody who has run so many marathons and ultra-marathons would know about slippery surfaces and know you have to watch where you plant your feet.
I took a hard fall on my right hip a couple weeks ago on a downhill trail covered in little ball-bearing rocks. Wonder if I can sue somebody? The soles of my Hokas were worn out...maybe I can sue Hoka for not having a warning about the dangers of worn out shoe soles on the product.
Stupid me...I thought it was MY fault.
Notoriously dangerous? Then why did she go there in the first place?