Our client was visiting a friend at his three-story walk-up apartment. Just shy of the third-floor landing our client lost his balance and fell over the handrail to the entryway 30 feet below suffering paralysis below the waist. Our firm’s investigation and litigation uncovered that the handrail was approximately 2 inches below the applicable building code requirement. As a result, the defendant property owner’s insurance carrier promptly complied with our demand for tender of the insurance policy limits.
