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Hotel Guest-Glass Coffee Carafe Shatters-Hand Injury

Hotel guest suffers hand injury on hotel glass coffee carafe - Settlement with manufacturer and hotel

SLCA Staff:

Richard N Shapiro, Attorney

Jackie T. Hunsburger, Paralegal

Meg G. Cudden, Legal Assistant

What Happened:

Our client was a college student attending a wedding, and was staying at a Marriott hotel in Northern Virginia.  He was replacing the glass carafe into a coffee maker when the glass carafe shattered in his left hand causing a deep wound to his hand between the thumb and first finger.  The Plaintiff notified the hotel of the injury, and went to the emergency room of a local hospital for treatment.  The wound was located at the metacarpal phalangeal joint, volar and caused a digital nerve injury as well as a flexor tendon injury.  Upon returning home in another state in New England, our client underwent hand surgery by orthopedic surgeon to repair the digital nerve and repair flexor digitorum longus tendon.  Following surgery, the Plaintiff received physical therapy to restore function of the hand.  However, the Orthopedic Surgeon has indicated that the Plaintiff would have some stiffness and decreased strength of the hand, as well as some slight decrease in sensibility of the nerve, which would be a permanent injury.  $11,000 dollars in medical bills and approximately $3,000 dollars in lost wages were incurred by our client, who was on the verge of graduating college at the time of the injury, and who later obtained a teaching position.

 Legal Strategy:

 Our legal strategy was to not only consider a claim against the hotel for providing a glass coffee carafe with known propensities to shatter, but to also locate the manufacturer and/or distributor and pursue a claim for product liability on the same grounds.  We conducted research and found that many of the coffee maker companies are offering a metal coffee carafe or a shatter proof plastic ceramic material carafe.  Either of these changes will prevent the type of permanent hand injury that that happens when a glass carafe shatters while being manipulated by a user.

After making settlement demand recommendations on both the manufacturer and hotel the case was settled for $70,000 dollars, with $45,000 being paid by the manufacturer and $25,000  being paid on behalf of the Marriott franchise owner.

Awarded: Hand Injury Settlement/Glass Coffee Carafe Shatters-Hotel Guest

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