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Follow on Google News | Los Angeles Premises Liability Case ends in Million Dollar SettlementAfter David Drexler and co- counsel, Ron Torem filed a defense motion for a summary judgment with the Honorable Mary Thornton House in a “slip and fall” case, the legal team won a $1,000,000 settlement for their client, Eric Thompson.
By: R. Klettke Thompson, a severe hemophiliac, slipped and fell on an oil spill in his apartment building’s stairway. Despite the defense’s contention they had no notification of the spill, Drexler and Torem produced witnesses who disputed that claim, forcing the large settlement. In this contentious premises liability case, Eric Thompson, a nineteen-year- His supervised therapies included a drawn out attempt to stop the internal bleeding, using injections of an expensive medication called NOVO 7. Bleeding into the joints, experts agree, causes severe joint damage, often-requiring replacement of the joint. And though Thompson’s subsequent knee replacement in July 2006 was a pre-existing condition, the expenses he incurred while hospitalized related to the slip and fall were $66,808.96. Drexler, a high profile personal injury attorney ( http://www.daviddrexlerlaw.com/ Three months before trial was set to begin, and two weeks before a scheduled summary judgment was to be heard before the Hon. Mary Thornton House, Drexler and Torem made a compromise offer to the defendants for $1,000,000. The defendants accepted that offer and settled the case for that amount. End
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