Hurt yourself on a poorly maintained city road, sidewalk, or bridge? You may have a claim against the municipality – but suing a city is not as straightforward as it sounds. There’s a 10-day notice deadline that catches a lot of people out, a much tougher “gross negligence” standard for falls on snow and ice, and a few other realities worth knowing before you begin. I set out five of them, with my colleague Madeleine Cleland, in this article for Lerners.
