Be careful where you go to drink alcoholic beverages. Not all bars provide the same protections and standard operating procedures that protect their patrons and protect the public from their patrons. Things Bars Should NOT Do To Keep You Safe Overserve their...
This is a challenging subject to write about, and one that we wish would never claim or ruin another young life. The following are accounts of some of the related real cases our firm has handled. No parent wants to get that phone call. The call that breaks...
Early one morning, a tow truck operator was heading down Indiana interstate I-69 just south of Hamilton Town Center on a call for a broken-down box truck sitting on the right-side berm. He pulled in front of the box truck with his emergency lights flashing in the...
A business owner has a duty to make the public areas of their property reasonably safe. However, trip and fall cases are fraught with traps for the unwary. Things like: failure to report the incident; failure to get the names and contact information of...
The Accident It’s a cold snow-swept night. A 14-year-old boy is walking his 13-year-old girlfriend from his next-door home down a narrow rural road. Snowplows have cleaned the street leaving high snow piles along each side of the road. This made it necessary they walk...
At Garrison Law Firm, we have reviewed a lot of bar fight case scenarios over the last 30 years. Bar fight cases are difficult because there is usually more than one party at fault. Candidates for fault are The bar staff for not protecting its patrons The bad actor...
