{"id":4641,"date":"2014-12-31T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2014-12-29T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:49:11","slug":"appeals-court-finds-business-actual-constructive-notice-puddle-fall-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/appeals-court-finds-business-actual-constructive-notice-puddle-fall-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Finds that Business Had No Actual or Constructive Notice of a Puddle before a Fall Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has affirmed a decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissing a lawsuit against a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\">Wal-Mart<\/a> store for injuries suffered by Kristen Zuppardi. She went to the Wal-Mart store in <a href=\"http:\/\/ci.champaign.il.us\/\">Champaign<\/a>, Ill., with her brother and her son on June 15, 2010. When she entered the store, Ms. Zuppardi took a shopping cart from the front of the store and then walked down one of the main aisles of the store. Ms. Zuppardi was on her way to the back of the store to purchase milk. As she was walking down the aisle she slipped and fell in a puddle of water on the store\u2019s concrete floors. She filed a complaint against Wal-Mart in state court in June 2012. The case was removed to the Federal District Court by Wal-Mart for diversity of citizenship jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Wal-Mart store\u2019s assistant managers, George Steward, stated that he did not witness the fall, but that he knew that because the fall occurred in close proximity to the store\u2019s back doors, Wal-Mart personnel would have promptly dealt with the puddle even if the plaintiff had not fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart was unable to locate the customer\u2019s incident file of this occurrence and was accordingly incapable of producing any documents related to the investigation other than five photographs depicting the location of the fall and a report submitted to Wal-Mart\u2019s casualty claims administrator. There was no video footage available.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/appeals-court-finds-business-actual-constructive-notice-puddle-fall-injury\/#more-4641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has affirmed a decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissing a lawsuit against a Wal-Mart store for injuries suffered by Kristen Zuppardi. She went to the Wal-Mart store in Champaign, Ill., with her brother and her son on June 15, 2010. 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