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An Alabama man who said he tripped and broke his hip while buying a watermelon at a Walmart store has won a $7.5 million verdict in his lawsuit against the retailer. Henry Walker on Wednesday was awarded the damages after a jury trial in Phenix City, Alabama, just west of the Georgia state line, court records show. Walker had sued Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., saying his foot became trapped in a pallet beneath the watermelons as he reached for one of the fruits at a Phenix City Walmart on June 25, 2015.
An Alabama man who said he tripped and broke his hip while buying a watermelon at a Walmart store has won a $7.5 million verdict in his lawsuit against the retailer. Henry Walker on Wednesday was awarded the damages after a jury trial in Phenix City, Alabama, just west of the Georgia state line, court records show. Walker had sued Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., saying his foot became trapped in a pallet beneath the watermelons as he reached for one of the fruits at a Phenix City Walmart on June 25, 2015.
This will be reduced on appeal to a much smaller amount.
In certain parts of the country it's much easier to pack a jury full of highly uneducated people that then can't even figure out what reasonable damages might be and view it as a chance to stick it to a big corporation.
States like Alabama, Mississippi and some others are commonly among the worst and then you have areas within states that are generally very poor like East St. Louis, that also makes it a popular venue to try to shift cases to.
It will just get rolled into the prices and passed on to the end consumer.
Nobody will notice a price increase whatsoever... Many of the products Walmart sales are produced overseas at a rate American workers can't compete with.. They spend more than 7 million per year on bonuses and corporate perks.. 7 million is nothing to them.
Nobody will notice a price increase whatsoever... Many of the products Walmart sales are produced overseas at a rate American workers can't compete with.. They spend more than 7 million per year on bonuses and corporate perks.. 7 million is nothing to them.
If it wasn't the only lawsuit, it wouldn't impact the consume, but the thousands of such lawsuits against retailers every year does impact the consumer.
This will be reduced on appeal to a much smaller amount.
In certain parts of the country it's much easier to pack a jury full of highly uneducated people that then can't even figure out what reasonable damages might be and view it as a chance to stick it to a big corporation.
States like Alabama, Mississippi and some others are commonly among the worst and then you have areas within states that are generally very poor like East St. Louis, that also makes it a popular venue to try to shift cases to.
It's not necessarily that the jurors are stupid, but they don't have experience with these cases so they don't know what is seen as an appropriate damages award. They do not have access to damages amounts in similar cases, so they're given wide ranges and lots of deference but it can be altered on appeal or even by the trial judge. Juries can award wide ranges in similar cases because they really have no basis or idea of what is and isn't appropriate, but it isn't really their fault.
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