Watch Your Step? “Black Ice” On Common Sidewalk Within Apartment Complex Deemed Open And Obvious. No Statutory Duty Triggered Under MCL 554.139(1)(a)

Secrest Wardle successfully defended the “black ice” premises liability claim brought by the Defendants’ tenant in Lowery v Brookline Management Company, RHP Properties, Inc. and Hunters Ridge Apartments Associates, LLC, Michigan Court of Appeals Docket No. 290875, rel’d 7/29/2010…