Colt Dodrill (Partner-Phoenix, AZ) and Madeline Gegg (Associate-Phoenix, AZ) secured dismissal in the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, on behalf of Wilson Elser's client, a commercial real estate owner, in a high-exposure wrongful death action. The plaintiffs alleged that the temporary unavailability of the client’s handicap parking spaces caused their mother to park elsewhere, fall off a curb, suffer a broken hip, and later pass away at the hospital. Colt and Madeline filed a dispositive motion that forced the plaintiffs to amend their complaint, abandoning their curb theory in favor of an alleged breach of state and federal accessibility statutes. Madeline then successfully argued that the decedent lacked standing to park in the handicap spaces if her accessible parking placard had long ago expired. Recognizing that the lack of a valid placard was fatal to their claims, the plaintiffs agreed to walk away. By securing dismissal at the pleadings stage, Wilson Elser curbed the client’s litigation spend by avoiding the need to retain numerous safety and medical experts.