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Appellate Division Reaffirms “Bright-Line” Between Commercial and Residential Properties as to Public Sidewalk Liability
In the published case of Gottsleben v. Annese, 2025 N.J. Super. LEXIS 52 (App. Div. July 3, 2025), the plaintiff Debra Gottsleben unsuccessfully attempted to expand the principles of public sidewalk liability for commercial properties to a residential property that was unoccupied and undergoing renovations. The plaintiff had slipped and fell on the sidewalk in […]
Court Rules That Commercial Landowner Has No Duty to Pre-treat Commercial Sidewalks Despite Actual or Constructive Knowledge of an Impending Storm
Defendant Hillside Estates, Inc. owned and managed Winding Woods Apartments in Sayreville, New Jersey. Plaintiff, Hsi Rung Niu-Wang, was a tenant in the complex. After plaintiff left her apartment to go to work, she walked towards her car and fell on black ice in the parking lot. The issue in Niu-Wang v. Hillside Estates, 2024 […]
No Liability Found for Jersey City for Injury Caused by Trip and Fall on Uneven Pavement
Plaintiff Linda Emmanoulidis was walking her dog in Enos Park in Jersey City when she tripped and fell on an uneven pavement and sustained injuries. The issue in Emmanoulidis v. City of Jersey City, 2023 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 477 (App. Div. Mar. 30, 2023) was whether the City could be liable for a pedestrian […]
Owner of Two-Family Home Found Not to Be Liable for Plaintiff’s Injury From Fall on Public Sidewalk in Front of Home
Plaintiff Shneequa Easterling had been walking on a public sidewalk abutting defendant’s home when she slipped and fell on ice, injuring her neck and back, as well as her right ankle. She filed a lawsuit against the defendant homeowner, George Johnson, who owned the two-family home abutting the public sidewalk. The issue in Easterling v. […]
Residential Landowners Found Not Liable For Plaintiff’s Injuries Due To Trip And Fall On Raised Sidewalk In Driveway Area
In August, 2018, while walking on the sidewalk in front of defendants’ home, plaintiff Diane Conway tripped in the area of a raised concrete sidewalk slab. Plaintiff claimed that she tripped over a “filled in” concrete or cement between two uneven concrete slabs. The issue in Conway v. Serra, 2022 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 856(App. […]
Homeowners Found Not Responsible For Plaintiff’s Injury Caused By Raised Sidewalk Slab In Front Of Defendants’ Home
Plaintiff, Susan Mondie, tripped and fell on a raised sidewalk slab in front of the home owned by defendants, Christopher Linton and Tami Wolfelsperger. Plaintiff claimed that the homeowners should be liable for her injury caused by her fall because a predecessor in title planted a pear tree next to the sidewalk and its roots […]
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