Attorney obtained a defense verdict before an ADR arbitrator. The attorney represented a city homeowner whose resident son had contacted a telephone services provider for the installation of a phone line. The plaintiff, who worked for a subcontractor to the phone services provider, drilled a hole in an upstairs bedroom, fished a phone line through it, and proceeded to the back driveway to pull the wire down for connection to a junction box located underneath the back porch. In his van was a 20 foot extension ladder which would have allowed direct access to the wire. However, the plaintiff parked two blocks away and decided to take a short cut by using the homeowner's 6 foot ladder to climb onto the apparently dilapidated porch. As he reached for the porch rail, it broke away from a rotted post, and he fell, sustaining significant injuries, including fracture to the femur. Plaintiff's counsel argued that the homeowner was on notice of the condition of the porch and should have warned the plaintiff. The attorney argued that under the Restatement and controlling case law, the homeowner properly relied on the plaintiff to safely perform the means and methods of his work, and that there was no duty to warn of obvious and potential hazards. The arbitrator also agreed with the attorney that the plaintiff had a superior and safer method of completing his task, which was to retrieve his own ladder and, thus, avoid the porch. His supervisor arrived post-accident and completed the task in that method. The attorney presented the testimony of the supervisors who stated that the plaintiff violated internal procedures. The attorney also presented the safety expert report.