New York partners Larry Lum and Aviva Stein and White Plains associate Rachel Budofsky successfully defended New York’s largest health care provider serving New York City, Long Island and Westchester County in a premises liability action in Richmond County Supreme Court. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Staten Island University Hospital following a one-week trial. The plaintiff claimed she seriously injured herself when she slipped and fell on fluid that she believed was leaking from an IV bag because she saw the empty bag and the tubing was laying in the puddle. Larry, Aviva and Rachel established that the plaintiff could not prove her assertion that the fluid was from the bag as opposed to another source and highlighted that when reported to the security officer, the plaintiff never mentioned the IV bag or her assumption that it came from the IV bag and only reported that she fell on a watery substance on the floor. The jury concluded that the plaintiff failed to meet her burden of proof with credible evidence to establish that the hospital created or had notice of the fluid on the floor before her fall and found no negligence on the part of the hospital. The settlement demand was $1.2 million before the defense verdict.