Premises Liability & Slip-and-Fall
Two defenses decide almost every fall case.
The first is notice — the owner says it did not know about the hazard and had no reasonable opportunity to find it. The second is open and obvious — the owner says the danger was there for anyone to see, so you should have avoided it.
Beating the first means proving the condition existed long enough that a reasonable inspection would have caught it, or that the owner created it. Beating the second usually means showing the hazard was not visible at all.
A result
$375,000. Our client, an older woman, went to sit down in a restaurant booth when the bench slid out from under her. The bench had never been bolted to the booth — but it looked identical to every other seat in the room, so there was nothing to warn her. She fractured her hip, had surgery the next day, and went from living independently to needing a wheelchair and then a walker. A latent defect is how you answer “you should have seen it.”
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More than $32 million recovered.
Plus more than $22 million in other assets.
Across more than 250 matters, in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
These case results are examples of matters handled by Posey Lebowitz PLLC. The outcome of any case depends on the specific facts and legal circumstances of that case. These results do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future matter. Amounts shown are gross recoveries before attorney's fees, case expenses, and medical liens. Asset values are stated as of 2026 and will change.