Attorneys were successfully granted a dismissal for our client who manufacturer's, installs, and maintains the elevators at a hospital

Attorneys were successfully granted a dismissal for our client who manufacturer's, installs, and maintains the elevators at a hospital. The allegations contained in plaintiff's Complaint involve alleged injuries sustained by plaintiff, a woman, making a "sales call" to a doctor's office located at the hospital. After the sales call, plaintiff decided to walk down the stairs because the elevators were not functioning when she allegedly slipped on a wet surface and fell at the bottom of the stairwell. We filed Preliminary Objections, arguing twofold that (1) our client did not have a legal duty to maintain the stairwells where plaintiff allegedly fell; and (2) the functionality of the elevators was not the proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries. We researched and argued that there is not one identified case across the country where an injured party using a stairway due to non-functioning elevators has been able to recover from the elevator maintenance company. In analogous scenarios, courts in New York, Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana, unanimously cut off liability to elevator and escalator companies.