{"id":920,"date":"2016-07-09T07:23:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T12:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illinoisinjurylawyerblog.net\/?p=920"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:39:29","slug":"woman-injured-icy-hotel-sidewalk-fails-provide-evidence-hotels-duty-train-employees-must-retry-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/woman-injured-icy-hotel-sidewalk-fails-provide-evidence-hotels-duty-train-employees-must-retry-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Injured on Icy Hotel Sidewalk Fails to Provide Evidence of Hotel\u2019s Duty to Train Employees, Must Retry Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has seen someone slip on an icy sidewalk, and the injuries can be serious. But whose duty is it to maintain the sidewalk, and what does that duty require? In a recent case, a court held that a case had to be retried when\u00a0a plaintiff failed to explain what the defendant\u2019s duty was in training its employees and how they failed to meet that duty.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/iowa\/supreme-court\/2016\/141058.html\" target=\"_blank\">case<\/a>, a woman slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk at a Marriott hotel while she was staying at the hotel for business. She broke her ankle and sued the hotel for negligently maintaining its sidewalks and failing to properly train the\u00a0employees who were responsible for deicing the sidewalks. The case proceeded to trial, and the jury found the hotel 98\u00a0percent at fault. The hotel appealed the decision, and the state\u2019s supreme court reversed and ordered a new trial. The court held that the trial court should not have allowed a \u201cnegligent training theory\u201d without having testimony on the standard of care for training employees on how to deice the sidewalk, or how that had been breached.<\/p>\n<p>The court explained that the jury could not have found that the hotel was negligent in training its employees because the required standard was never explained to the jury. In other words, the plaintiff did not provide any evidence that the hotel had a duty to instruct employees about the time that deicing would remain effective. The court stated that some evidence or testimony to support the position had to be admitted before a jury could return a verdict on that specific claim. The jury could not find that the hotel breached its duty to properly train employees because the standard of care required was never explained. As a result, the court reversed the decision, and the\u00a0case had to be retried.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/woman-injured-icy-hotel-sidewalk-fails-provide-evidence-hotels-duty-train-employees-must-retry-case\/#more-920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has seen someone slip on an icy sidewalk, and the injuries can be serious. But whose duty is it to maintain the sidewalk, and what does that duty require? 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