Conners v. Northeast Hospital Corp.

On April 2, 1997, while walking from a parking lot into the building where she worked, Janet Conners slipped on an accumulation of ice and snow and suffered a serious injury to her leg. She brought an action for damages against Northeast Hospital Corporation (Northeast), which owned and maintained the parking lot as part of a complex of buildings on its hospital campus. She also sued a Northeast employee — the director of its plant operations — and two Northeast subcontractors. The case was tried before a jury in the Superior Court; they found no liability against the employee and the…