PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh couple claim that a wooden board in the middle of the floor caused the husband-plaintiff to fall inside a pool table store and suffer a litany of serious injuries.
Joseph Giaramita and Carmela Giaramita filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Sept. 19 versus PCI Ventures, Inc. (doing business as “Pool City, Inc.”) and D.L. Schwarz, Inc. All parties are of Pittsburgh.
“At all times relevant and material hereto, defendant Schwarz was dismantling a pool table on the premises of Pool City, Inc., on behalf of defendant store. At the same time and place, the defendants leased, owned, operated, possessed, controlled, managed and/or maintained the premises and had a duty to inspect, maintain, repair, control, supervise and oversee the at-issue premises and to warn of and correct the dangerous conditions thereon,” the suit said.
“On June 14, 2021, the plaintiff was lawfully on the aforementioned premises for a business purpose. At all times relevant and material hereto, there existed a dangerous, defective, hazardous and/or unsafe condition on the premises of the defendants, characterized by a wooden board in the middle of the designated walkway. Plaintiff was caused to trip and/or otherwise lose his balance and fell as a result of coming into contact with the aforementioned defective condition.”
The suit adds the defendants failed to notice, maintain or repair said defective condition.
“As a direct and proximate result of the aforementioned incident, plaintiff sustained the following injuries, some or all of which are or may be permanent: Rotator cuff tear of right shoulder, labral tear of right shoulder, bilateral knee pre-patellar bursitis, aggravation of unilateral primary osteoarthritis of left knee, right shoulder sprain, chronic right shoulder pain, impingement syndrome of right shoulder, exaggeration of lumbar spine degenerative condition, bilateral knee pain, bilateral arm pain, and left hand pain,” the suit states.
For counts of negligence and loss of consortium, the plaintiffs are seeking damages in excess of the jurisdictional limits of compulsory arbitration, plus costs, interest, punitive damages and such other and further relief as this Honorable Court may deem just and equitable.
The plaintiffs are represented by Karen L. Hughes of Woomer & Talarico, in Pittsburgh.
The defendants have not yet obtained legal counsel.
Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas case GD-22-011736
From the Pennsylvania Record: Reach Courts Reporter Nicholas Malfitano at nick.malfitano@therecordinc.com