Business Law Question

Question

Steve Urkel, a brilliant 23-year old scientist with questionable coordination skills, was preparing to board a Delta Airlines flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Los Angeles International Airport when he realized that he had left one of his two carry-on suitcases at the TSA Checkpoint. As Urkel heard the announcement that it was the "last call for boarding," he began to run full speed back to the TSA Checkpoint--not noticing that there was an area of the airport roped off by the airport's maintenance staff for mopping. 

As Steve Urkel ran right through the roped-off area, Urkel tripped and fell face-first on a puddle of soda that was in the roped-off area. As he landed, Urkel dropped his other suitcase, which flung open - releasing a series of golf balls across the corridor. At exactly the same time, Laura Winslow, a 23-year-old elementary teacher was running in the opposite direction to catch her flight. And she, not noticing the white golf balls that had fallen from Urkel's bad and matched the airport's white carpeting, ran straight over a golf ball, causing her turn her left ankle, fall, and break her left wrist.

Believing that the airport was at fault for her accident, Laura Winslow decided to sue LaGuardia Airport. Judgment for whom? 

Answer 1

First, is the issue of cure and medical care, then second is the issue of liability. For cure, there may be processes in place to help Laura immediately fund the treatment and care through her personal insurance or the Airport’s insurance processes. If Laura has no insurance coverage and worst case, the Airport has no insurance coverages, then coverage of care can be the State’s burden to fund in order for Laura’s ankle to become immediately medically cured. Then comes the issue of liability - First, Urkel fell on accident and cannot reasonably be held liable for something he did not purposefully cause. Second, the Airport cannot be held liable for injuries sustained from an act that has occurred as a result of an accident or an act that was not perpetrated by the Airport or from which the Airport cannot be deemed to have been a party to a negligent act. In conclusion, no one is at fault for Laura’s injury and the only remedy is for Laura to benefit from compensating funds that are already established within the insurance process for such occurrences.