Lansing Woman Sues for Illinois Personal Injury After Husband Sustains TBI from Falling Off Golf Cart
The wife of a Lansing man who sustained a traumatic brain injury when he fell off a golf court is suing Indian Lakes Resort for Illinois personal injury. Sherri Bergfors is seeking damages for her husband’s TBI and her loss of consortium.
Todd R. Bergfors was participating in a golf outing when one of the resort’s employees gave him a ride in a club golf cart. According to the Cook County personal injury complaint, Bergfors was allegedly forced to stand in the area of the cart that is supposed to hold golf clubs. Because the employee allegedly operated the golf cart in a negligent fashion—per the lawsuit, he made a “sharp turn” and drove the cart at an "excessive speed”—Bergfors was injured in a Cook County fall accident when he was thrown from the golf cart.
He now has a TBI. Bergfors’s physicians told a judge in October that their patient was in a coma. His prognosis for recovery is poor.
The couple’s Cook County personal injury complaint also accuses the defendant of improper employee training, failing to warn Bergfors of the dangers associated with standing on the back of a golf cart, and overloading the golf cart that they were using to transport him.
Property owners can be held liable for Cook County, Illinois personal injury if a hazardous condition on a premise that should have or could have been remedied (or should not have existed on the property to begin with) causes the plaintiff to get hurt. Fall accidents can cause serious injuries, such as traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, broken hips, and dislocated body parts. These kinds of injuries are very painful and costly to treat. Some of them may be permanent. Many Illinois premises liability accidents are avoidable—if only negligence on the liable party's part did not occur.
Man sues resort after fall from golf cart, Chicago Now, November 12, 2009
Woman sues after husband falls off golf cart, My Suburban Life, November 13, 2009
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Indian Lakes Resort
UAB study estimates golf cart accidents injure 1,000 people a month, Al.com, June 10, 2008
