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Duluth Woman Injured at Assisted Living Home Results in $110,000 Verdict
Duluth attorney Paul Schweiger, the managing partner of Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum & Carey's Duluth office, recently obtained a $110,000 verdict for his 62-year-old client who suffered a significant femur fracture in a fall at St. Ann's Residence in Duluth, Minnesota last year.
A seven-person Duluth jury found that new carpeting being laid at St. Ann's assisted living residential home without adequate safety precautions caused Susan Davis, a 62-year-old resident at St. Ann's, to fall as she was walking to the evening dinner and encountered the carpet work in progress.
Davis was on her way to the sixth floor dining hall for her evening dinner on January 21, 2005. She was walking with a platform walker, as she suffers from severe arthritis throughout the majority of the joints in her body. She came across carpet being laid in the main sixth floor hallway. Her platform walker caught on the unfinished carpet seam and she fell to the floor. The fall caused a significant fracture to her right thigh bone immediately adjacent to her artificial knee. The fracture needed to be surgically repaired with the insertion of a metal plate and 11 screws. The fractures have healed since the surgery but left Susan Davis with ongoing pain.
St. Ann's denied responsibility for the fall claiming that Susan Davis was responsible to watch out for her own safety. “We found this statement to be an unfortunate one, coming form an assisted living facility” said Paul Schweiger.
On Thursday April 6, 2006, a seven-person Duluth jury, the Honorable David Sullivan presiding, found St. Ann's 85 percent at fault for causing the fall and awarded Susan Davis $59,549.78 for past hospital and medical expenses, $50,000 for past pain and suffering, disability, and emotional distress, and $20,000 for future pain and suffering.
Since the fall Susan Davis has moved out of St. Ann's and now lives with her daughter and her husband in Duluth.
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