Michigan Law

Plaintiff, an independent contractor, filed a negligence action after he slipped and fell in Defendant’s parking lot injuring his ankle. Defendant Dealership successfully argued before the Trial Court that a person of ordinary intelligence would have appreciated the danger in the parking lot given the presence of snow and near freezing temperatures.

Beaumont hospital hired Plaintiff construction workers as part of a sidewalk repair. Unexpected electrical wires were discovered during the repair and work ceased. The construction workers were subsequently and erroneously apprised that the electrical conduit was dead and that work could resume.

A construction site accident occurred in which plaintiff was injured while assisting defendant in removing a piece of heavy equipment from a semi/flatbed trailer combination. The appellate court determined that plaintiff’s injury could be considered “foreseeably identifiable with the normal use of a vehicle.”