One of New York City’s popular socialites, Jane Scher, sued Pottery Barn Teen for a fall she suffered on Black Friday last year at a Manhattan store of the retail chain.
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Scher filed the suit in the New York State Supreme Court on December 5 against Pottery Barn Teen and owner Williams-Sonoma Inc. and affiliates, in which she alleges negligence and seeking damages. In the suit, Scher says she “fell violently” at the retailer’s Second Avenue store in Manhattan. The lawsuit was filed by her attorney Howard A. Raphaelson of Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm.
The lawsuit states that there was an “unprotected opening and/or hole in the floor that was not guarded, barricaded or warned against in any manner and by reason of this dangerous and hazardous conditions which existed thereat, in consequence of, said plaintiff (Scher) sustained serious and severe personal injuries.”
She was taken to an ER after her assistant called 911. Scher said her jewelry items were broken and a mink coat was torn from the fall, in addition to her bodily injuries.
The lawsuit also says that the incident was “due solely by reason of the carelessness, recklessness and negligence of the defendants and defendants’ respective agents, servants, licensees, contractors, subcontractors, employees and other affiliates and those acting under its direction, behest, permission and control, in their ownership, operation, management, maintenance and control of the aforesaid premises.”
Scher lists multiple injuries in the lawsuit, including “serious and severe personal injuries to head, body and limbs; a severe shock to the nervous system; suffered great physical pain and mental âñgnish; was confined to bed and home and caused to abstain from usual duties and activities; was forced to seek medical aid and attention and to expend divers sums of money for same, in an endeavor to be healed and cured of said injuries, which may be permanent and lasting.
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