The following blog post was prepared by Toronto slip and fall lawyer Mark Yazdani. For more information about slip and fall lawsuits, see his law firm website: www.slipfall.ca.

The Degennaro v. Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital court decision was released by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on July 2, 2009

On May 19, 1999, Diane Degennaro two-year old son became ill with flu-like symptoms. She took her son to the hospital at 1:15 a.m. that evening and they were admitted into a hospital room. Ms. Degennaro wanted to phone her husband and sat on a hospital bed near to a telephone. Suddenly, the end of the bad collapsed and she fell heavily on the floor landing on her buttocks and lower back. She felt terrible pain and a nurse in the room helped her up and sat her on the bed. She stayed the night at the hospital with her son and her son was discharged after three days.

Ms. Degennaro continued to experience severe pain after her accident. She returned to the hospital on May 31, 1999 and was diagnosed with a fractured sacrum. Read the rest of this entry »