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...
Fire Pit Liability Story One: Exploding Propane Fire Pit It’s a beautiful summer holiday weekend, and your good friends have invited you to join them with others for an evening party at their home. It’s a jovial time, and you are sitting around your friend’s propane...