Mich. Justices Shake Up Slip-And-Fall Defenses

By Danielle Ferguson (July 28, 2023, 10:02 PM EDT) -- A split Michigan Supreme Court on Friday dismantled a decades-old system to analyze a property owner's duty in slip-and-fall cases that it said goes against state law, with the majority saying that whether a condition was open and obvious should be a question for a jury instead of a judge, and the dissent saying the change will wreak "havoc" for property possessors....

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