Lawsuit: Woman Died Because Walmart Didn’t Double-Bag Her Groceries
By
Laura Northrup August 29, 2013
In
April of 2010, a Nebraska woman picked up two 46-ounce cans and a
two-pound bag of rice at Walmart. The cashier put all of these items in a
single bag. The bag broke, causing an injury which became infected. The
infection led to the woman’s death. Now her family is suing Walmart, as
well as the companies that made and distributed the faulty plastic bag,
for wrongful death.
According to her family’s attorney, the bag broke, and one of the
cans fell on her foot, breaking a toe and cutting her foot. The wound
became infected, and her condition declined. Antibiotics and two
surgeries couldn’t save her, and she died.
The problem isn’t just that the bag was defective, you see: Walmart
is named in the suit because they were allegedly “negligent” in not
training their employees how to bag properly. Had her purchases been
double-bagged, after all, the can probably wouldn’t have fallen on her
foot. If the purchases had been put in multiple bags, the defective bag
might not have broken at all.
Plattsmouth man sues Wal-Mart, says overfilled plastic bag led to wife’s death [Lincoln Journal Star]
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