Wis. Appeals Court Finds Potential Liability for Building Owner in Injury Case

WAUSAU, Wis. - A building owner may have liability under Wisconsin's "safe-place" statute for injuries to a worker struck by a falling window sash despite a lack of notice of any hazardous condition, a state appellate court has ruled. Wagner, et al. v. Cincinnati Casualty Co., et al., No. 2010AP1195 (Wis. Ct. App., Dist. IV).

Wisconsin's District IV Court of Appeals on May 19 reversed summary judgment granted to an office building's owner, saying that the injured worker may prove that no notice was necessary if the cause of injury was a structural defect due to faulty installation rather than …