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"A local judge elected to take no action Monday on a plaintiff's motion to continue a trip-and-fall lawsuit.<br /> <br />As <a href=\"http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/236898-motion-for-continuance-filed-in-suit-over-womans-stumble-in-construction-area\" class=\"copy\">previously reported</a>, Holiday Inn employee Carol Gonzales filed suit against Insurance Services Construction on Oct. 20 in Jefferson County District Court, alleging the company negligently failed to securely fasten a floor covering while performing work at the hotel.<br /> <br />International Catastrophe Solutions was later added as a defendant, court papers say.<br /> <br />Court records show that on March 18 ICS filed a motion for special appearance, arguing that the company does little business in Texas and that the court lacks the jurisdiction to preside over the litigation.<br /> <br />On June 22 Gonzales filed her motion, asking that the case be continued \"for a couple of months based on the fact that ICS has still not\" officially answered the suit, the motion states.<br /> <br />A hearing on the matter was held Aug. 22.<br /> <br />Judge Bob Wortham, 58th District Court, decided to take no action on the motion, a court official told the Southeast Texas Record.<br /> <br />Court records show that on Oct. 23, 2008, Gonzales was working at the Holiday Inn on Walden Road when she tripped over a loose floor covering placed in the area where ISC was contracted to perform repair work.<br /> <br />Gonzales is suing for her past and future mental anguish, pain, medical expenses and lost wages, plus exemplary damages.<br /> <br />Beaumont attorney Gilbert T. Adams represents her.<br /> <br /><em>Case No. A188-650</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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