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Just settled a 6 figure slip and trip case. Taking ?'s
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:20 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Client slipped on some fruit dropped on the ground in a grocery store.
Fell and busted her ass.
Case settled for little over $110k.
Case resolved after taking just my client's deposition. No MSJ's.
Probably one of my easier cases to resolve. |
Date: December 15th, 2025 7:23 PM Author: drunken pistol great work. i’ll be sure to think of you the next time i buy a $9 gallon of milk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512278) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:23 PM Author: boyish slap-happy black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512280) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:24 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Sure, blame the injured poor person.
Not the greedy corporate overlords that decide to fuck over other customers rather than reduce their profit margins. |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: drunken pistol lol just lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512310) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 10:57 PM Author: Motley Orange School Cafeteria Candlestick Maker so was there some deficiency in the cleaning that led to your client to slip on the fruit? it's sort of a known hazard in the grocery store (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512775) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:02 PM Author: marvelous spot main people If it's such a "known hazard", then why didn't the store do a better job of keeping it from happening?
Who is in a stronger position to prevent such a "known hazard" from happening? My client or the owner of the property who has a written policy THAT EXPLICITLY SAYS TO CHECK THE FLOORS FOR DROPPED FOOD? |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:05 PM Author: Motley Orange School Cafeteria Candlestick Maker ? no store can keep the floor spotless. and any customer walking around a display of apples and bananas should consider the possibility that one would've fallen onto the floor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512796) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:07 PM Author: marvelous spot main people That's not what the law says.
It clearly says if you have a cleaning/safety policy and your employees fail to follow that policy then, DING-FAG, you're liable for any injuries that occur. |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:09 PM Author: Motley Orange School Cafeteria Candlestick Maker so then why don't stores just write policies that say we'll pick up every once in a while, and try to keep it clean, but hey nobody is perfect (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512805) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:11 PM Author: marvelous spot main people They do.
But their dumbass employees never follow the damn policy.
After I get a copy of the cleaning policy, and then depose their corporate rep, I always discover where the employee fucked up. |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:13 PM Author: Motley Orange School Cafeteria Candlestick Maker Ty, that's interesting I guess. Not sure why your client should get $110k out of it though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512811) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:15 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Because the insurance adjuster knew that if I got in front of a jury, they'd end up paying more than that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512817) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:14 PM Author: drunken pistol because this has nothing to do with the law or morality but rather leveraging our kafkaesque legal bureaucracy stoked by the resentment of losers like op’s clientele into extracting “just fucking go away” money from risk-averse committee decisionmakers who simply pass on the costs to regular productive citizens. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512815) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:21 PM Author: marvelous spot main people "who simply pass on the costs to regular productive citizens"
So the blame should be on the corporate overlords who:
a) created the hazard that injured the customer;
b) forced the injured customer into litigation instead of just paying for her medical treatment;
c) Pass the bullshit costs of litigation onto customers rather than eating the cost for their own fuckup |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:46 PM Author: drunken pistol a) there is no “hazard.” tell your fucking bozo clients, who are almost certainly career leeches in the first place, not to slip on banana peels like a shitty vaudeville act. b) i would confidently bet at least that six-figure settlement amount that the “medical” “treatment” your client received was worth less than 50% of the settlement value even after deducting your cut. c) why would they do that, when every competitor is beholden to the same gunpoint tort bullshit? the shamelessness and/or retardation that enables you to envision yourself as robin hood just because somebody, somewhere (who is at least providing a valuable service) makes more money explains a lot about your renttt-seeking career path. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:42 AM Author: marvelous spot main people You're supposed to wear boots, not deep-throat them you dumb faggot.
If my client was such a lying fraud, why did the insurance company roll over and pay?
They're a multi-billion dollar company, surely they could afford to have their CHILL AS FUCK CHAD of a defense lawyer go to trial and mop the floor with my weak case.
It would probably be a lot cheaper than writing a check for 6 figures to an "obvious fraud"
Maybe. . .just maybe, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and need to suck my dick from the back. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:13 AM Author: drunken pistol i explained why they settle in my initial poast, but your point about the id attorneys is helpful. if you were anything other than a nuisance piker, do you think corps would uniformly hire the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel sadsack lawyers to “defend” against your surely devastating legal assault? they’ve already priced it in, with the waste ultimately absorbed by everyone except your worthless clients and scamster colleagues. so congratulations! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49513423) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:07 PM Author: marvelous spot main people What a great business model!
"Let's just pay a six figure settlement IN ADDITION to the $25k we dropped on defense costs against an obviously weak case that we'd surely win at trial!"
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Date: December 16th, 2025 5:40 PM Author: drunken pistol if this is a representative display of your logical reasoning and argumentation abilities, then i can see why you’re so excited about the settlement. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49514920) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:25 PM Author: Khaki Razzle-dazzle Roommate >”6 figure” >$110K |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:27 PM Author: marvelous spot main people 1-0-0-0-0-0
Do you see 5 or 6 digits in that number? |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:29 PM Author: Khaki Razzle-dazzle Roommate Oh so it was actually 100K not 110k? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512298) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:31 PM Author: marvelous spot main people You're asking the wrong question.
The RIGHT question is:
"How does it feel to know that your children will have a wonderful Christmas because of Daddy's hardwork."
To that, I would answer,
"It feels good, Jerry, it feels real good." |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: swashbuckling institution dragon You're a shit bag and should be summarily executed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512305) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Execute me inside of the same store.
Hopefully someone will slip on my blood and they'll be ANOTHER 6-figure hit against their policy! |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: Appetizing sinister corner give us some details about your practice. when you started, prior experience, employees, income, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512306) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Opened my own shop shortly before COVID shut down every court.
worked for a small PI bro in a small town for a few years.
4 employees.
income, to quote the poet-laurette Lil'Wayne:
A Milli-A Milli-A Milli-A Milli |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 9:19 PM Author: Vivacious piazza You’re clearing a million? What market..
Legit question. Been thinking of going solo pi work…no access to cases yet |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 10:57 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Your personal network is the greatest source of referrals.
Once you start taking cases, tell EVERYBODY YOU POSSIBLY CAN that you do PI. They will start sending people to you little by little.
Also, start reading books on how to manage a small business. The key to becoming and STAYING profitable is learning how to manage payroll while you're pushing the boulder uphill towards a settlement/verdict. |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 7:42 PM Author: talented mildly autistic parlour reading party 18000000. Congrats man. I honestly think slip and falls are underrated in shitlaw. I’m not above getting completely covered in shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512325) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 9:38 PM Author: Supple Milky Locale Scourge Upon The Earth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512635) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 10:00 PM Author: talented mildly autistic parlour reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512676) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:00 PM Author: marvelous spot main people They aren't bad at all if you learn how to work them up properly.
The key to surviving summary judgment is proving that the employees fucked up by not following the corporate cleaning/safety policy.
You do that, you'll make it past SJ and head to a trial calendar. Once that happens, they'll fold and pay you. |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:51 PM Author: talented mildly autistic parlour reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512871) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:30 AM Author: Adventurous cobalt stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512956) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 10:20 PM Author: laughsome flesh stage What are the demographics of your litigious clients? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512705) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:06 PM Author: marvelous spot main people POC.
Although, I just settled another premises case last week for $120k. Client was a white woman. |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 10:26 PM Author: Swollen queen of the night do banana peel cases pay more than apple peel cases (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512710) |
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Date: December 15th, 2025 11:09 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Why the fuck would a banana peel be on the floor?
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:40 AM Author: claret arousing indian lodge How often do you consider the fact that your existence is a complete waste of time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49512963) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 1:43 AM Author: marvelous spot main people Considering how much money I put in my clients' pockets. . .not too often.
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Date: December 16th, 2025 9:37 AM Author: cyan area Good work OP. Specials? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49513322) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 11:12 AM Author: olive center organic girlfriend Yes please tell us the specials. Congrats on the settlement I hope you get more (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49513530) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 12:08 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Injury to her middle, and lower back.
Several rounds of physical therapy and injections.
No surgical recommendation tho.
Bills were about $40k |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 7:17 PM Author: olive center organic girlfriend How’s the venue? Solid result either way, just wondering. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49515185) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:17 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Venue is Blue-ish.
10 years ago, it was solidly Red, but now LIBS have slowly taken over that jurisdiction. |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 5:50 PM Author: Beady-eyed confused business firm How is fruit not open and obvious? Was it invisible fruit? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49514940) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:19 PM Author: marvelous spot main people It's open and obvious if you can prove that it ws not on the floor long enough for the store to clean it up.
If store performed floor checks every 15 min, then there is nothing they can do about fruit falling on the ground. No liability.
However, the store was unable to prove when was the last time it had performed a safety floor check, thus there was no way to prove that it was in compliance with its own safety policy. |
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Date: December 17th, 2025 10:21 AM Author: talented mildly autistic parlour reading party 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49516279) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 6:02 PM Author: swashbuckling institution dragon I can't tell whether PI lawyers are 100% evil shitbags who are 100% aware of the evil they perpetrate, or 99% evil shit ags who manage to delude themselves into thinking they're not 100% evil. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49514967) |
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Date: December 16th, 2025 10:19 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Keep licking those boots, faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49515649) |
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Date: December 25th, 2025 12:49 PM Author: marvelous spot main people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5810735&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310906#49539226) |
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Date: December 25th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: odious indecent ratface theatre I've never done a slip and fall, but i've seen the facts of a handful (mediated one, had a shitlaw friend tell me about another, saw video that got passed around the trial lawyers of a third).
I'm obviously generalizing from a small sample, but it seems like to settle for this amount the facts have to be a lot more evocative than anyone normally thinks of when they think of a slip and fall.
I recall one being this old as fuck guy using a cane--he clearly should have been using a walker or a wheelchair, because he looked shaky as shit even just walking around normally--and the plf's att'y spliced together the footage of the different cameras of him slowly, creekily walking to an aisle that had spilled laundry detergent, and watching the leadup (and knowing basically what was going to happen) gave you that same 'oh no'/look-away feeling you get from watching a video that you know is going to gross you out or make you sad. |
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Date: December 27th, 2025 3:00 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Bingo! You gotta have a "good" client to scare the Claims Adjuster into putting serious money on the table.
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Date: December 25th, 2025 3:39 PM Author: Vigorous police squad volcanic crater my first slip and fall was client slipped on ice cream on the ice cream store floor.
Not my favorite cases but sometimes they pay! |
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Date: December 27th, 2025 3:00 PM Author: marvelous spot main people Why was the ice cream just laying on the floor?
Didn't they have a cleaning policy? |