As contractors continue to lobby lawmakers in Albany to revise New York's 128-year-old scaffold law, two designers from Brooklyn are discovering just how limiting the law is. Their focus is not safety; rather, these two and their company work to redefine the public...
Month: October 2013
A fight breaks out in a Denny’s. Is the restaurant liable? p4
We are finishing up our discussion of a premises liability lawsuit from Western New York. In our last few posts, we have discussed the duty a business owes to different types of visitors. In this case, the restaurant, Denny's, owed the plaintiff, an invitee, a duty of...
A fight breaks out in a Denny’s. Is the restaurant liable? P3
Now that we have established some ground rules for the case, we can talk about the particulars of the fracas at a Western New York Denny's restaurant. The case has not been decided, but the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in September that the case can move...
A fight breaks out in a Denny’s. Is the restaurant liable? p2
We are discussing a premises liability lawsuit involving an incident at a Denny's in Western New York. Before we get to the particulars of the case and the various legal arguments, we wanted to go through some premises liability law basics. So far, we have described...
A fight breaks out in a Denny’s. Is the restaurant liable?
The International Franchise Association released a report recently that got us to thinking about premises liability. We won't retrace the thought, but suffice it to say that the IFA's research shows that by the end of 2013 franchise businesses will have added jobs and...