{"id":5936,"date":"2025-05-20T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/landlord-liable-for-tripping-hazard-despite-tenants-prior-acknowledgment-state-appellate-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:15:00","slug":"landlord-liable-for-tripping-hazard-despite-tenants-prior-acknowledgment-state-appellate-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/landlord-liable-for-tripping-hazard-despite-tenants-prior-acknowledgment-state-appellate-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlord Liable for Tripping Hazard Despite Tenant&#8217;s Prior Acknowledgment, State Appellate Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>A Massachusetts court approved a jury&#8217;s determination Friday that even though the plaintiff had recognized that a platform in front of her door had been removed, that tripping hazard wasn&#8217;t open and obvious to the tenant several hours later. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed a nearly $281,000 jury verdict in a premises liability suit, concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury&#8217;s finding that a landlord created an unreasonably dangerous condition when she removed a platform without notifying the tenant. The platform bridged the gap between a wheelchair ramp and a door sill, and the plaintiff noticed the change during daylight hours, but fell several hours later at night. The three-judge panel determined there was sufficient evidence supporting the jury&#8217;s finding that removing the platform, absent adequate lighting, created an unreasonably dangerous condition that wasn&#8217;t open and obvious to the plaintiff. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts court approved a jury&#8217;s determination Friday that even though the plaintiff had recognized that a platform in front of her door had been removed, that tripping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6024,1389,143,5029,4570,675,1478,351,1911,4572,6023],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-acknowledgment","tag-appellate","tag-court","tag-hazard","tag-landlord","tag-liable","tag-prior","tag-rules","tag-state","tag-tenants","tag-tripping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}