Harold A. Saul of the Tampa office, obtained a favorable result at trial in a premises liability case. An employee of the property owner asked the Plaintiff, who was both a friend and an air conditioning technician, to take a look at a leaky air conditioner on the roof. While using a ladder that the employee had placed against the building earlier in the day, Plaintiff fell and suffered a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, 7 broken ribs and an alleged disc herniation in his neck resulting in over $120,000 in medical bills and a 5-day hospital stay. The Plaintiff claimed the employee was holding the ladder at the time he fell, but the employee testified he was entering the office at the time and was not holding the ladder. Plaintiff made a significant demand and refused to negotiate. At trial, Harold argued the Plaintiff was the sole cause of the accident and disputed the amount of damages claimed. After a three-day trial, the jury found the employee 50% negligent and Plaintiff 50% negligent. After reduction for Plaintiff’s comparative fault and collateral source setoffs, the jury’s net verdict for the Plaintiff was substantially less than the last settlement offer made by Harold.