Lawsuits fly after woman falls 25 feet into Fenway Park elevator shaft
Elisabeth A. Scotland plunged about 25 feet down an elevator shaft onto the top of an elevator car on May 16, 2014, after attending a Red Sox game at the team’s Fenway Park stadium in Boston.
Scotland filed a lawsuit in December against the team’s parent company, Fenway Sports Group, and the contractor, Otis Elevator Co. Her lawyers stated the fall caused severe injuries, from which she is still recuperating. They allege that the cause of the fall was an improperly maintained elevator hoistway, or outer door that gave way when Scotland, then 22, made “casual contact” with it.