$430,000 Settlement for Slip and Fall on Wet Tile

$430,000 negotiated at private mediation for a 45 year old Trinidadian woman who slipped in a public stairwell at her apartment building. Although the stairs were in mint condition, our engineer opined that the floor tiles were damp, they failed to have an adequate co-efficient of friction and there was no banister to grab to prevent a fall, allowing us to defeat defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff suffered a tri-malleolar fracture in her right leg, requiring an open reduction with internal fixation repair, and second procedure to remove the hardware and a third surgery to correct an equinus deformity that developed in the ankle.