Arreguin-Leon v. Hadco Construction
Court of Appeals of Utah
Judge David N. Mortensen authored this Opinion, in which Judges Kate A. Toomey and Ryan M. Harris concurred.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTENSEN, Judge:
¶ 1 Working on a ladder involves certain inherent risks. Working on a ladder on the shoulder of Utah's largest interstate freeway magnifies those risks. In this series of unfortunate events, a car crash into a construction site knocked Noe Arreguin-Leon (Plaintiff) off a ladder and caused him to sustain serious bodily injury. Plaintiff sued Hadco Construction LLC (Hadco) for negligently failing to implement a proper traffic control plan, which purportedly would have protected against cars entering the construction site. At trial, the jury awarded Plaintiff $2.9 million in…
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