
Originally Posted by
N0help4u
I heard of ALL kinds of things that people have sued for AND won.
a woman tripped over her shoelace and sued the tennis shoe company and won.
a girl threw a drink at her boyfriend in a fast food place. Then she slipped and fell and sued and won.........................
I thought these cases were urban legend - not that there haven't been some strange settlements.
The slip and fall is complicated - a public place (in NYS) has an obligation to clean a dangerous situation within a reasonable period of being notified of the situation, no matter who causes it - and I don't know if that was the case here.
I investigated an accident in which a woman opened the top of a detergent bottle to check the scent, closed it (but not tightly), put it in her cart, wheeled away, another shopper noticed the trail of detergent and notified management, they did not respond in a timely manner, the woman who opened it in the first place fell in the meantime - and won damages, reduced because she was partially negligent.
Do you have any additional info on the two you mentioned?