Deal or No Deal?
Date: 09-04-2007
Posted by: Anabolic Info TeamUnited States |
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LOS ANGELES, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Judy Myers, CEO of uboomeru.com a
new social networking site for baby boomers, a published author of best
selling health and fitness books, a masters bodybuilding and fitness
champion, golf champion, media mogul and CEO of entertainment company
Alchemy Visions, filed a lawsuit on Friday, April 6, 2007 against Lock and
Key Productions Inc., the production company for primetime television show
"Deal or No Deal," starring Howie Mandell. Alexander J. Petale, a high
profile celebrity attorney, is representing Ms. Myers.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070313/LATU006 )
Myers, a resident of San Diego's North County, Oceanside, CA, alleges
in her suit she was injured February 19, 2006, while working as an "Extra,"
i.e. a paid audience member, on a studio soundstage at the Sunset Gower
Studios in Hollywood, CA, during a production of the show, "Deal or No
Deal."
Ms. Myers states in her lawsuit, filed Friday, April 6, 2007
(http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org Case Number BC369070), "She was asked if she
wished to participate in a 'dance contest,' and if so was instructed to
quickly 'hurry up and come down' to participate in a dance contest during
the commercial break."
The stage manager emphasized that everyone had to move quickly to come
down to participate as there was not much time for the commercial break.
The lighting was dark. There were no hand railings for persons descending
the steps to hold on to and no illumination strips on the edge of the
steps, to see the edge of the steps.
As Ms. Myers was hurrying down the steps, pursuant to the specific
instructions of the stage manager, who at the time was looking directly at
Ms. Myers, Ms. Myers tripped and fell down, striking her right knee and leg
on the steps and floor, suffering great and considerable personal injuries,
damages, harm and experienced pain to her right knee, right leg and side of
her body.
Defendants and such and all of them were under a duty to maintain a
safe working area for the plaintiff, a participant in the production of
"Deal or No Deal" show. The defendants breached their duty to maintain safe
working areas by failing to provide adequate lighting, failing to maintain
handrails on the steps and failing to place illumination strips along the
edge of the steps.
These failures on the part of the Defendants to maintain safe working
areas for the plaintiff were the actual cause of Plaintiffs trip and fall
injury and the Plaintiff suffered great and considerable injuries, harm,
loss and damages, including but not limited to a torn meniscus in her right
knee as well as other injuries to be specified during the course of this
litigation.
Ms. Myers could not be reached for comment.
