On August 2, 2018, Fort Lauderdale Managing Partner David Lipkin, Esq. and Senior Partner Dorsey Miller, Esq. obtained a defense verdict in the slip and fall matter styled Maria Cadette v. Defendant Store.  Plaintiff, a then 57 year old woman alleged that on 8/31/14 she suffered a trip and fall injury at a Defendant store garden department caused by loose mulch which had spilled from  ripped bags onto the floor.  In support of her claim she offered several photographs alleged to have been taken shortly after her fall showing mulch on the ground.  Defendant Store denied it was negligent and noted that plaintiff’s fall was not caused by the mulch on the ground, but by plaintiff simply attempting to lift an entire bag of mulch by herself without assistance as plaintiff admitted on cross examination that the fall occurred as she attempted to lift a bag of that was stacked on a pallet at nose level. Read More