San Francisco Trip and Fall Case - 500,000 Settlement

Our dangerous premises, or slip and fall lawyers, fought for and won another great result in a San Francisco trip and fall case. Representing a tenant against his negligent landlord, our premises liability attorneys settled this personal injury case, just after it was set for trial, for $500,000. This trip and fall case, filed in San Francisco, California, is particularly interesting since our client, a San Francisco tenant "tripped and fell" over a raised threshold, and into a shower door of untempered glass, in his rented apartment. Broken shards of glass sliced the man's body, causing lacerations through his side, as well as to his hand and face. He was left with ugly scars, and will need revision surgery.

Despite his owning many identical apartment units, the San Francisco landlord claimed he knew nothing about the danger of untempered glass in a shower door. He also claimed not to understand the dangerous nature of a discrepancy in floor height between the hall and the bathroom. The landlord also kept the client's rental deposit because he said "the tenant broke his shower door."

The landlord's reason for not changing to a cheap and harmless shower curtain?  Because his tenants would get too much water on the bathroom floor! This was another case of a defendant valuing profit before people, and our team of attorneys made this negligent landlord accountable for his failure to take safety seriously.