Tag: Sidewalks
Expert Testimony Not Needed to Establish Unlit Walkway Drop Off Was A Dangerous Condition
Plaintiff Holly Hughes was a Certified Nursing Assistant who was hired by the defendant decedent’s daughter to provide nursing care to decedent (Leonard Owen) in his home. On her first day of work, as she was leaving work, she tripped and fell at the end of the walkway, apparently due to a substantial drop off. […]
Owner of Commercial Property With Triple Net Lease Agreement Found Not To Be Liable For Fall on Sidewalk
Plaintiff Edna Albert slipped and fell on a sidewalk outside a Pathmark grocery store and suffered personal injuries. The Pathmark had leased the premises from Klingensmith Associates, LLC (“Klingensmith”). The issue in Albert v. Pathmark Stores, Inc., 2019 N.J. Super Unpub. LEXIS 1586 (App. Div. July 10, 2019), was whether the commercial landowner, Klingensmith, who […]
Homeowner Found Not Liable for Injuries Suffered from Fall on Sidewalk
The plaintiff Terry Peifer was walking her dog when she tripped and fell on the sidewalk bordering the front yard of the home owned by defendant Clarence Mesday. Plaintiff claims to have fallen on a raised sidewalk. The issue in Peifer v. Mesday, 2019 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 990 (App. Div. May 1, 2019) was […]
Condo Association No Liability for Fall on Interior Sidewalk

With all the ice and snow this winter, condominium associations (and their insurers) that maintain interior sidewalks in their community will be breathing a sigh of relief that they have no liability for an injury from a fall on an icy patch on an interior sidewalk. In the unpublished Appellate Division decision, Qian v. Toll […]
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