Blog: Slip & Fall - Page 9

If you slipped and fell inside a Moyamensing, Philadelphia, bar, restaurant, or club, the business may owe you money for your injuries. A venue must keep its floors, stairs, and lighting reasonably safe for guests. When it does not, and you get hurt, you can seek payment for your medical bills, your lost wages, and …

If you slip and fall on the stairs at the Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Regional Rail station, you may have a claim. The station opened in 1875 and has no elevator, so steps are the only way to reach the side platforms. Whoever controls and maintains those stairs must keep them reasonably safe. When a worn …

If you tripped on an uneven curb or sidewalk in Hawthorne, Philadelphia, more than one party may owe you money. In most cases, the owner of the property next to the sidewalk must keep it reasonably safe, while the city answers for the curb ramps it builds. Who pays depends on which part of the …

Walk up Conrad Street on a fall morning. The sidewalk tells the story of the neighborhood. Brick rows from the 1890s sit next to slate slabs and patches of newer concrete. Each material has settled at a different rate. The result is a row of small lips and tilted edges underfoot. That mix gives Upper …

Climb the steel stairs at Huntingdon Station on a cold morning, and you can feel the century in the treads. The Market-Frankford El opened above Kensington Avenue in 1922. Many of those original stair landings are still in daily use today. Thousands of riders walk down them at rush hour and at midnight. The platform …

Step off the 13th Street curb at Walnut, walk one block east, and the ground changes. The concrete gives way to a single block paved in dark wood. Camac’s 200 block is the only street in Philadelphia still paved in wood. By daylight, it shows its deep history. At 10:00 p.m. on a wet Friday …