Schindler Elevator Corporation, Macy’s, and Bloomingdale’s face a personal injury lawsuit claiming there is an elevator tripping hazard in a Manhattan Bloomingdale’s.

Plaintiff Janet M. claims that she was shopping at a Manhattan Bloomingdale’s on July 9, 2017, when she tripped walking into the elevator. She claims that she tripped because the floor of the elevator was not level with the floor of the building. She claims that she was injured by her fall, and aims to hold Schindler Elevator Corp. responsible for her injuries, as she claims that they are the company responsible for the maintenance of the elevator.

Janet also aims to hold Bloomingdale’s and its parent company, Macy’s responsible for the elevator tripping hazard. Her personal injury lawsuit claims that the three companies were negligent in not ensuring that the elevator was safe for passengers, and that their negligence resulted in injury.

She alleges the companies failed to maintain sufficiently safe facilities, and failed to sufficiently warn people who might use the elevator that the elevator was unsafe to use and could cause injury.

Janet claims that her injury from tripping in the elevator was severe enough that she was “rendered sick, sore, lame, and disabled.” She claims that she suffered physical and mental pain, bodily injury and nervous shock, and will continue to suffer for some time. She claims that in addition to physical injury, she suffered economic injury from the medical bills from her treatment and recovery, and because she was incapacitated from completing her usual duties.

In her Bloomingdale’s elevator accident lawsuit, Janet seeks damages of $1,000,000 from the three companies to compensate for her injuries.

An elevator tripping hazard is just one way a company can expose people to preventable injuries. In many cases, people are injured and harmed by a company’s negligence. Personal injury lawsuits can be filed for a range of injuries and possible cases of negligence including:

• Catastrophic injury
• Car and other transportation accidents
• Dangerous Environment on the Premises
• Dog Bites or other Animal Attack Incidents
• Medical Malpractice
• Selling Defective Products
• Slip or Fall Accidents
• Workplace Injuries

Consumers can file personal injury lawsuits when a company or another person was reasonably expected to take some precautions to protect the safety of others, but failed to do so, and the injured another person. Typically, personal injury lawsuits are filed over physical injury suffered on another person or party’s property. Some cases can involve property damage and emotional or mental trauma.

If you suffered personal injury, you may have a legal claim. Filing a personal injury lawsuit can help you gain compensation for physical, emotional, and financial injury you suffered. Even if a personal injury lawsuit does not go to trial, a person who submits a claim may receive compensation in mediation or arbitration.

The Bloomingdale’s Elevator Tripping Hazard Lawsuit is Case No. 1:18-cv-03506-ARR-JO, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.