{"id":12542,"date":"2011-11-29T05:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T05:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2011-11-29T05:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T05:48:04","slug":"customer-sues-restaurant-for-alleged-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/customer-sues-restaurant-for-alleged-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer sues restaurant for alleged fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>A woman has sued an establishment in Garapan for the alleged injuries she sustained when a protruding metal rebar in the parking lot caused her to trip and fall to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica Cruz Velasco, through counsel Victorino DLG. Torres, is suing Himawari Saipan Inc. for negligence. She is demanding unspecified damages, attorney&#8217;s fees, and court costs.<\/p>\n<p>Himawari operates a store, bakery, and restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune contacted Himawari yesterday for comment, but one of its owners, Tatsuhito Suzuki, was not available as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>Torres stated in the complaint that Velasco was walking toward Himawari from the parking lot, on March 14, 2011, when she tripped over a bended rebar that was protruding but was not adequately visible. Torres said that Velasco fell to the ground and sustained unspecified injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer said that Himawari failed to provide any sign whatsoever that there was a bended rebar in the way and intruding upon the customers&#8217; pathway. Himawari failed to put a cone or barricade to give any warning, Torres said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter A woman has sued an establishment in Garapan for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}