Premises Liability / Construction Accidents

Premises Liability and TBI

This confidential pre-suit settlement was reached on behalf of a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a fall at a premise due to faulty construction.

Construction Site Settlement for Injured Drywall Worker

This settlement was reached after our client, an undocumented Mexican immigrant and drywall worker, fell 15 feet through a set of shoddily constructed stairs while carrying construction materials and landed on the concrete below. The stairs were built by a subcontractor and were noncompliant with the building code, lacked the required bolts, bracing and ledgers, and were unable to support a reasonable and expected load during the course of construction. As a result, our client suffered severe injuries, including a spinal cord injury, persistent bowel, bladder and sexual dysfunction, right-lower extremity weakness, knee instability, a traumatic brain injury and post-concussive disorder. We recovered all available insurance policy limits.

Judgment Obtained for Premises Liability

This judgment was obtained for the client against a local club for spinal injuries sustained by a patron who was assaulted by the club's bouncer.

Settlement for Premises Liability / Construction Site Injury

Our client was visiting a construction site when the employee of a framing contractor dropped a stack of roofing trusses on top of him, causing him to suffer serious injuries that required spinal surgery. We filed a lawsuit against the framing contractors, and both of their insurance companies attempted to evade responsibility and cancel their coverage by filing separate declaratory judgment actions. On the eve of the DJ trial and the trial of the underlying case, the insurance companies tendered this coverage, allowing for this substantial recovery.

Settlement for Premises Liability

While playing golf at the Parkland Course in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, our client slipped and fell on a wooden bridge covered in a thin layer of algae. Our attorneys revealed that our client was among many golfers who too had fallen in this same area, meaning the course managers were aware of its dangerous conditions but neglected to take action. The firm settled the case for $1.4 million.

Alcohol Liability Settlement

The attorneys of Yarborough Applegate recently received a policy limits settlement of $1,000,000 for a Deputy who was permanently injured when a bar patron pulled directly into his oncoming lane of travel. Tragically, the impaired female driver—also a victim of the bar’s failure to follow SC law by serving her an excessive amount of alcohol—was killed in the crash.