United Scaffolding, Inc. v. James Levine

in which Chief Justice Hecht, Justice Johnson, Justice Willett, Justice-Guzman, and Justice Brown joined.

In this slip-and-fall case, we are presented with' two challenges to a trial court judgment rendered against a scaffolding contractor. First, the contractor challenges the jury submission of the plaintiffs claim under a general-negligence theory of recovery, arguing that the plaintiff brought a claim for premises liability, which necessarily fails because the plaintiff did -not request and obtain findings on the elements of that claim. We hold that the plaintiffs claim against the…