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Rising Star Attorney Secures Major Settlements in 2 Months

"Slip-and-fall cases are difficult to try on both ends," Megan Boorsma said. "A case like this with a fracture is high risk. There's a big risk of us getting a defense verdict in a slip-and-fall case, but with an injury like this, there's definitely a risk that they would get a verdict. People always say like you never leave a mediation happy, neither side."

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