Floored!

Real-Life Stories from a Slip and Fall Expert Witness

Russell J. Kendzior

When watching the evening news you can be led to believe that most slip and fall claims are bogus and nothing more than a scam designed to fleece business owners and the insurance industry for money. But not all Plaintiffs are scam artists, and not all victims are seeking to cash in on their injury. Falls can affect each of us. The next victim could be your mother, your brother, your spouse or child…and oh yes, even you!

The truth of the matter is, each year millions of personal injury lawsuits are filed by victims of a slip, trip and fall accidents, most of which are settled out of court. However, over the past decade there has been a noticeable rise in the average settlement as well as jury verdicts. As an expert witness, Russell J. Kendzior has been retained in more than 700 slip, trip, and fall lawsuits and has now compiled over 50 of his top cases in Floored!

Rather than debate the truth behind slip, trip and fall litigation Kendzior sets the record straight and provides the reader with a behind the curtain view of the people filing these lawsuits and the companies being sued. This book is a great resource that explains what can be done to prevent the injury and thus the lawsuit through the eyes of a safety expert and stories of real-world victims.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 282 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-7169-2 • Hardback • September 2017 • $48.00 • (£37.00)

978-1-4422-7170-8 • eBook • September 2017 • $45.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Industrial Health & Safety, Law / General, Law / Personal Injury, Self-Help / General

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Real-Life Stories from a Slip and Fall Expert Witness

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When watching the evening news you can be led to believe that most slip and fall claims are bogus and nothing more than a scam designed to fleece business owners and the insurance industry for money. But not all Plaintiffs are scam artists, and not all victims are seeking to cash in on their injury. Falls can affect each of us. The next victim could be your mother, your brother, your spouse or child…and oh yes, even you!

The truth of the matter is, each year millions of personal injury lawsuits are filed by victims of a slip, trip and fall accidents, most of which are settled out of court. However, over the past decade there has been a noticeable rise in the average settlement as well as jury verdicts. As an expert witness, Russell J. Kendzior has been retained in more than 700 slip, trip, and fall lawsuits and has now compiled over 50 of his top cases in Floored!

Rather than debate the truth behind slip, trip and fall litigation Kendzior sets the record straight and provides the reader with a behind the curtain view of the people filing these lawsuits and the companies being sued. This book is a great resource that explains what can be done to prevent the injury and thus the lawsuit through the eyes of a safety expert and stories of real-world victims.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 282 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-7169-2 • Hardback • September 2017 • $48.00 • (£37.00)

978-1-4422-7170-8 • eBook • September 2017 • $45.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Industrial Health & Safety, Law / General, Law / Personal Injury, Self-Help / General

Author

Russell J. Kendzior, is the President of Traction Experts, Inc. and founder of the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI- www.nfsi.org). Internationally recognized as the leading safety expert in slip, trip, and, fall accident prevention, Kendzior has been retained in over 400 slip, trip, and, fall lawsuits. He has expertise in cases involving ADA and OSHA violations; and is a leading researcher, educator, and expert consultant to the manufacturing, insurance, and safety industries. He is also the author of Falls Aren't Funny: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Slip-and-Fall Crisis (2010) and Slip-and-Fall Prevention Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing Accidents (1999).

Table of Contents

Foreword
1 Grocery Crooks!
2 Tag, You’re It!
3 Killer Funeral!
4 Dam Wall!
5 Busted My Butt!
6 Oil Slick!
7 Got It Maid!
8 Double Trouble!
9 Slippery Slippers!
10 Broken Television!
11 Mining for Peanuts!
12 Wedding Crasher!
13 Big-Tex’s Soccer Barn!
14 He Got the Point!
15 Curbed at the Antique Store!
16 An Island of Safety!
17 Bleacher Fall!
18 Injured at the Vet’s Office!
19 Halftime Injury!
20 Sign of Things to Come!
21 Clowning Around!
22 Stairway to Heaven!
23 Nailed!
24 Teed Off!
25 Slipped on SpongeBob SquarePants!
26 I Hate Grapes!
27 Meals on Heels!
28 The High Cost of Oil!
29 Rotisserie Chicken!
30 Unlucky at the Casino!
31 Broken Toilet!
32 Mary and Ginger at the Casino!
33 Slippery Muck!
34 Fell in the Freezer!
35 Slipped in Elvis’s Bathtub!
36 Shelved!
37 Lost Leg in a Bathtub!
38 As Seen on TV!
39 Tanked!
40 Chicken Run!
41 A Bad Sign!
42 Railroaded!
43 The Rising Price of Bananas!
44 Falls Aren’t Funny!
45 Alaskan Ice!
46 Fell at the Well!
47 Hurt at the Hospital!
48 First-Class Delivery!
49 Bad Sign!
50 OSHA Gets the Boot!
51 Deadly Sidewalk!
52 Tripped at the TripMart!
53 Stick a Fork in Her!
54 Wheel Stopper!
55 Crazy Buffalo Wings!

Reviews

Enter the herculean energies of Russell Kendzior to speak prevention and mitigation to this indifference and sometimes outright opposition to change for safety and the economic costs thereby avoided as well. He links knowledge to action to diffusion and is the guiding force behind pertinent safety standards.
— Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed

Russell's professional resume shows his leadership in the safety profession. When OSHA begun revising its sub-part D. Walking and Working Surfaces standard, Russell was asked to provide input which was of great value in the regulatory process.
— Edwin G. Foulke, Former Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA

We retained Russ in a floor mat trip and fall case and after a long and difficult battle we were able to overturn a lower courts summary judgment at the state supreme court, which lead to a $3.95 million settlement.
— Scott Blumenshine, Meyer and Blumenshine, Chicago, IL

Russ is one of the most knowledgable, passionate and focused expert witness I have had the pleasure to work with. A true professional.
— William K. Goldfarb, The Law Offices of William K. Goldfarb

Russ is the experts expert!
— Charles Dunkel, Shirley Mills, LLP, Houston, TX

Russ Kendzior’s trial presence is without a doubt one of the best we have seen of any expert witness we have hired.
— Terry Evans, Andereck, Evans, Widger, Lewis & Figg, LLC

Russ Kendzior is the Albert Einstein of the walkway safety industry.
— Benjamin Hall, Hall Law Firm in Houston, Texas

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