Car accidents, car crashes or pedestrian accidents can be devastating and as well as life-threatening. Apart from the pain and suffering you feel, the hospital bills and other medical bills quickly start to flood in.

After the holiday season when we have eaten too much, maybe even drank too much and enjoyed that warm fuzzy feeling we might miss a stack boxes standing on a wooden pallet. Anything is possible after champagne and eggnog. But can we sue for tripping over the stack of boxes on the wooden pallet.

When looking for an interesting case to explore, I usually like cases that have lots of issues thrown together. The case Frieberg v City of NY 2021 NY Slip Op 02100 at first does not seem very dramatic- a slip and fall on an exterior step-yet exposes lots of issues. The decision explores physics, handrails and proximate cause. Proximate cause is connecting the fall to theories of negligence.