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Fall down in grocery store / fracture elbow with nerve damage

 

PREMISES LIABILITY

A woman tripped over a cardboard display in a grocery store, fracturing her right elbow and sustaining permanent nerve damage. She alleged that the aisles in the store were too narrow and the display at issue protruded too far into the aisle. As a result of her fall she claimed pain, suffering, and inconvenience in addition to lost wages and impaired future earning capacity.

Demand
$125,000

Offer
$16,000
(withdrawn)

Result
Defense verdict

Venue
Allegheny County

Judge
Baer

Attorney
Pamela V. Collis

Tried
March 2000