| Restaurant Verdicts & Settlements | Click on case name to purchase report | |
| Verdict & Settlement Disposition | Description | Case Name |
| $1,276,436 | Property was leased to Dick's Last Resort for a restaurant in Dallas. The company then abandoned the property, precipitating a breach of lease suit. | Market/Ross, Ltd. v. Dick's Last Resort of the West End, Inc.
Dallas Co., Texas, Dist. Ct., No. 05-9991-B (7/11/07) |
| $725,000 | In an L.A. restaurant, an 81-year-old female slipped and fell. She claimed that employees were aware there was water on the restroom floor, where she slipped. |
Doe v. Unnamed Restaurant Los Angeles Co., Calif., Super. Ct., No. Not Given (6/7/07) |
| $600,000 | A realtor slipped on a piece of wax paper on the floor of Au Bon Pain. She alleged that there was no procedure for clearing the floors of the paper. | Yu v. Au Bon Pain Bergen Co., N.J., Super. Ct., No. BER-L 8327-05 (7/18/07) |
| $600,000 | An emergency medical technician slipped in the China Hong Restaurant in Brooklyn. She claimed that she sustained back and knee injuries. | Maldonado v. Hong Ying Liu Kings Co., N.Y., Sup. Ct., No. 4151/05 (6/19/07) |
| $425,000 | A retired woman fell as she was attempting to sit down at CoCo's restaurant. She alleged that Coco's did not fasten its booth tables to the wall or floor. | Bonneville v. Catalina Restaurant Group Inc. Contra Costa Co., Calif., Super. Ct., No. C03-03132 (7/5/07) |
| $37,500 | While dining at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant, a counselor slipped on a wet floor and fell. He sued on a premises liability theory. | Buccigrossi v. Ruby Tuesday Inc. W.D. Penn., No. 2:06-cv-00680-TMH (12/13/06) |
| $3,780 | At a Church's Chicken, a woman fell where an employee had just mopped. She sued, alleging the restaurant failed to set out signs warning of the wet floor. | Flores v. Cajun Operating Co. Lubbock Co., Texas, Dist. Ct., No. 2006-534,849 (9/12/07) |
| $1,662 | A woman was dining at the Rusty Pelican restaurant when she took a cracked dessert cup from the buffet and cut her mouth on the some glass in the cup. | Fernandez v. Biscayne Bay Restaurant Corporation Dade Co., Fla., Cir. Ct., No. 06-12300-CA-22 (6/4/07) |
| Defense | A woman alleged that she slipped on water inside a restaurant. Defense argued she fell because of a preexisting knee injury or another reason within her control. | Harrington v. Nobu Corp. New York Co., N.Y., Sup. Ct., No. 116862/04 (8/3/07) |
| Defense | At a Pittsburgh night club, a man was injured when he was struck by another patron in a fight. The defense contended that the man initiated the altercation. | Lindsey v. Crystal Mug, Inc. Allegheny Co., Penn., Ct.C.P., No. GD-03-9781 (2/2/07) |
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