Date: 10-23-2009

Case Style: Carol Browers v. Great Plains Regional Medical Center

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Judge: Donald Rowlands

Court: District Court, Lincoln County, Nebraska

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Description: Carol Browers sued Great Plains Regional Medical Center on a premises theory claiming that she slipped and fell on ice in the hospital's parking lot and was injured.

GPRMC stipulatged that it was negligent in inspecting it’s property for ice, removing the ice, warning pedestrians that black ice was in the parking lot, and not limiting traffic in icy areas but claimed that Browers was contributorily at fault.

Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $200,000.00.

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Comments: Editor's Note: Verdicts of this magnitude are relatively rare.