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While celebrating her mother’s birthday last year at her parents’ home in Darlington, Wisconsin, Carriel Louah slipped on ice in their driveway and broke her ankle; this July a judge in Madison ruled that the 25-year-old Louah could proceed with a $75,000 lawsuit against them for negligence. (She claims that her parents failed to adequately maintain their property, citing an apologetic letter sent after the accident in which her mother wrote that they should have made repairs “years ago.”) And in June Jaime Pinedo filed a suit in Hackensack, New Jersey, against the estate of his late brother’s late girlfriend, Xiomara Ortiz; according to the suit, poor security measures at Ortiz’s home made it possible for her jealous ex-husband to (as authorities allege) catch her and Daniel Pinedo together and shoot them both execution-style.
Max Foster, 18, told the Daily Telegraph in June that after he called police in Bath, England, to report that he’d just seen some kids ride away on his moped, the responding officers said they weren’t allowed to pursue the vehicle because the suspects hadn’t been wearing helmets and the force didn’t want to be sued if one of them fell off and got hurt. (Authorities confirmed that declining to chase a helmetless rider was one of the “options available” to officers in such cases.)
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