Top Slip & Fall Verdicts and Settlements

A Cook County jury awarded $32 million to truck driver Stephanie Johnson, who developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after slipping on oil at an ExxonMobil facility, in what the Jury Verdict Reporter recorded as the largest CRPS verdict in Illinois history.

After a neurosurgeon slipped on a wet hospital pantry floor and developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy that ended his surgical career, an Evansville jury found St. Mary's Medical Center fully at fault and awarded $16.95 million, a verdict the Indiana Court of Appeals later affirmed.

A Kern County jury awarded William Kidd and his wife Elaine $16.2 million after he slipped at a Bakersfield El Pollo Loco and suffered a brain injury that later required surgery.

A Clark County jury held Lowe's responsible after Kelly Hendrickson slipped on liquid draining from store planters, fractured her skull, and permanently lost her senses of taste and smell.

A San Diego County jury ordered Starbucks to pay roughly $7.5 million after chiropractor Anthony Zaccaglin slipped on a freshly mopped store floor, struck his head, and suffered a brain injury that ended his career.

A Colorado jury awarded $6,945,040 to a 60-year-old shopper who slipped on solvent residue at a Kohl's self-checkout and developed Functional Neurological Disorder, after the store's expert accused her of faking her symptoms.

A Los Angeles jury awarded Henrietta Castrellon $6,626,603 after she slipped and fell on an unsafe floor condition at a Home Depot store, in a result the Daily Journal described as potentially the largest such verdict against the company in California.

A Manhattan jury awarded $6.45 million to a 53-year-old avid salsa dancer who slipped on fish guts left on a Broadway sidewalk outside the Citarella gourmet grocery, dislocated her knee, tore three ligaments, and required at least 12 surgeries over 11 years.

A Los Angeles County jury awarded wedding photographer Payman Heravi a gross $6.06 million after he broke his arm and tore his shoulder on a tree-root sidewalk uplift the City of Los Angeles had left unrepaired for years, then split fault evenly and cut his recovery to about $3.03 million.

A woman who slipped on grease in a common area shared by her employer and LAVO, a nightclub-restaurant then owned by a Madison Square Garden Entertainment subsidiary, suffered neck and back injuries requiring multiple surgeries and settled her case for $5.3 million in 2023.

A Miami-Dade jury returned a $4,877,775 verdict for Juan Del Valle, who slipped on water from a leaking produce refrigeration unit at a Winn-Dixie in Miami Lakes and underwent three spinal surgeries, leaving him with permanent hardware in his spine.

A Palm Beach County jury awarded $3 million to Darrell Phillips, a handyman who fractured his humerus and suffered permanent radial nerve damage after tripping over wire mesh concealed in a grassy area behind a convenience store where he had been hired to repair the beer-cooler AC unit.

A Manhattan building porter fell 14 feet through an unguarded third-floor hole after a general contractor's superintendent removed the only cover and left without any warning, resulting in three spinal surgeries and a $2.75 million settlement.

A Denver jury returned a $2.1 million verdict for George Hodge after he slipped on ice at a storage unit and suffered a complete retinal detachment that permanently ended useful vision in his right eye.

A federal jury found that a snow-covered crack in a Family Video parking lot caused Rosemarie Waddy's broken ankle, awarding $2 million before a 15 percent fault finding cut her recovery to about $1.7 million.

A Lexington County jury awarded $2 million to Donna Roland, 60, after she tripped on a three-inch gap in a county sidewalk and broke her arm in two places while dropping off an absentee ballot during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Boise jury awarded more than $1.66 million to a commercial tenant who suffered permanent brain damage after falling on improperly installed stairs, a verdict affirmed on appeal by the Idaho Supreme Court.

A 62-year-old woman tripped over a broken Brooklyn sidewalk section in 2013 and suffered back and ankle injuries requiring multiple surgeries; the firm documented four years of constructive notice using Google Earth imagery and recovered $1.5 million at mediation.

A Tucson jury awarded $1.5 million to a woman who slipped on water leaking from a BCI Coca-Cola refrigerator at a grocery store, after the bottling company rejected a $150,000 settlement offer.

A Dallas County jury found Taco Bell 100% liable and awarded Deandre Gilkey $756,794 after store surveillance showed an employee had noticed a floor puddle 34 seconds before Gilkey slipped, fell, and ultimately underwent back surgery.

Louis Hollingsworth secured a $400,000 jury verdict for a Tucson woman who slipped and fell entering a Safeway store, netting $360,000 after a 10% comparative-fault finding against her.

A Marion County jury found Indianapolis landlords 85 percent at fault for a tenant's fall down a rental staircase that had no code-required handrail, awarding her $121,770 for permanent ankle and nerve damage.

In November 2019, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge overruled demurrers filed by Lyft and the City of Santa Monica, finding that an 88-year-old woman who sustained five pelvic fractures after tripping over a Lyft scooter in a posted no-deployment zone had stated viable negligence and public-nuisance claims against both defendants.