Andrew Biren and Spencer Goldberg settled a case for $650,000 against an Orange County Property Management Company for a woman whose foot got wet while stepping over a giant puddle adjacent to the top; of a stairway and then subsequently slipped and fell while descending down the stairway causing her to sustain a serious tibia/fibula fracture. The defendant maintained that the stairway was in good working order and that Plaintiff was comparatively faulted because she had previously slipped on the stairway. Defendant further claimed that no one else had fallen on the stairway other than Plaintiff and that the puddle at the top of the stairway had nothing to do with the incident. The plaintiff maintained that the stairway was defective because the steps had a rounded bullnose edge that made it very dangerous for people going down the stairs when their feet were wet. The Biren Law Group further maintained that the only reason the incident happened was because the Plaintiff’s foot got soaked in the puddle at the top of the stairway and that the puddle was a chronic problem that the defendant was 100% on notice of.