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"A Swansea man has filed suit against the owners of an apartment complex where he claims he fell through a step.<br /><br />Jason Bozeman claims he was working to install cable television at an apartment at 215 S. Morrison St. in Collinsville on June 15 when the incident occurred.<br /><br />\"A step collapsed when the plaintiff was walking from the second floor to the first causing him to fall,\" the suit filed Dec. 29 in St. Clair County Circuit Court states.<br /><br />Because of his fall, Bozeman incurred medical costs, lost income, experienced pain and lost his normal life, the complaint says.<br /><br />Bozeman blames defendant Metro East Management for causing his fall, saying the owners of the apartment complex negligently failed to repair a faulty step when it knew the step wasn't attached, failed to warn others of the step's unsafe condition, failed to maintain the staircase and failed to periodically inspect the stairway.<br /><br />In his complaint, Bozeman is seeking a judgment of more than $50,000, plus costs.<br /><br />Jon E. Rosenstengel of the Law Offices of Bonifield and Rosenstengel in Belleville will be representing him.<br /><br /><i>St. Clair County Circuit Court case number: 10-L-674.</i>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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