High Heels Get Caught In Concrete Crack.

Plaintiff caught her foot in a walkway separation and “the toe of [her] right shoe . . .started to go forward” and she went down suffering injuries to her hands, wrists, elbows and knee.  A jury awarded her $1,336,197 and the trial court granted both a JNOV and a new trial, ruling that “no reasonable person could find this was not a trivial defect.”  The Court of Appeal found the defect “was trivial as a matter of law.”  Cadam v. Somerset Gardens Townhouse HOA   (Cal. App. Second Dist., Div. 6;  October 28, 2011) 200 Cal.App.4th 383, [132 Cal.Rptr.3d 617].