Philadelphia partner Catherine Straggas, Esquire received a defense verdict after a 5 day trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. Catherine represented a national sports/entertainment venue and international entertainment production company against an alleged failure to warn patrons a snake would be part of the performance. Plaintiff sustained a trimalleolar fractured ankle after a friend, with a snake phobia, ran into her. Plaintiff underwent two surgeries to repair her fractured ankle and claimed she was incapacitated for 6 months after the accident.
Catherine S. Straggas, Esquire
Margolis Edelstein
601 Walnut Street
4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106
p (215) 931-5835
f (215) 922-1772
cstraggas@margolisedelstein.com “””