Liability for Slip and Fall

A Missouri appellate court held that a restaurant is liable for injuries sustained by a patron who slipped in the rest room, because it was foreseeable that there might be water on the floor that could cause such an accident.  Here, a claimant went into a restaurant rest room and slipped on water on the Continue Reading …

E Coli in Undercooked Meat

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that every year about 76 million people get sick from food-borne illness, with more than 300,000 people hospitalized and 5,000 dying each year.  One of the most well known food contamination cases links a fast food chain to an e coli contamination of undercooked meat where over 400 Continue Reading …