Burger King ordered to pay whopping $8M to man who fell on ‘foreign substance’

NY Post ^ | 05/25/2023 | Chris Pandolfo, Fox Business

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

including $3.35 million for lost earnings

Lost earnings of over $3 million!? What the hell did he do for a living? And how long was he laid up?

[Boogieman]

“Tulecki suffered a postoperative perforated colon”

If it was postoperative, shouldn’t he be suing the surgeon?

[Songcraft]

:-)

(Works faster than extra-strength Ex-Lax!)

[alternatives?]

$3.35 million in lost earnings to a 48-year-old man?

[GranTorino]

Post-op dinner at burger king.
That’s enough to kill anyone.

[KosmicKitty]

Are they sure it wasn't a fecal substance?

[null and void]

Was the foreign substance in the country legally?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A sigh of annoyance can be heard from Wal-Mart, who is sued roughly once EVERY DAY, most of which are bogus slip-and-falls. And Wal-Mart has a no-settlement policy, so they have a battalion of lawyers, and cameras in their stores are ubiquitous.

And their lawyers are very practiced in such lawsuits. Since usually those thinking to get rich quick from a settlement are poor, it is not worth their while to counter-sue, and even their litigious lawyers are small fry not worth the effort.

[Sacajaweau]

$3.35 mil...if he worked to 62, that would be more than a quarter of a million for 14 years.

Don't seem right.

[Afterguard]

Morgan & Morgan?

[FamiliarFace]

I don’t do chains often, but if I have to choose, I like Culver’s burgers. My fave is always my hubby’s pecan-smoked ones.

[FamiliarFace]

For real.

[Dr. Sivana]

$3.35 million for lost earnings? What job did he do?

He was 46 at the time of the suit. Figure 20 years of work. I guess he was clearing $175,000 per year.

[FamiliarFace]

I was curious so I looked him up on Linked in. Turns out he had been an Operations Manager for a place called PTE Systems in Hialeah. https://ptestrand.com/

[FamiliarFace]

What, is he paralyzed now? Never able to work again?

I bet he’s sitting out on his yacht, soaking up the rays.

[gibsonguy]

Maybe not, it’s Broward county.

[Songcraft]

Well then, that means he would have to work for 4,962 years to earn that kind of money.

[21twelve]

My professional and liability insurance skyrocketed two years ago. I asked my agent what was going on.

“We’ve been working together 30 years now - right? In all that time the biggest payout I was involved with was $800,000 for a death. In the last few years I have had payouts of over $1 million for broken bones!”

[bigbob]

at the rate Biden’s border crossing pals are coming in we’ll see a lot more foreign substances on the floor

[Honest Nigerian]

I, too, am wondering what law firm represented the plaintiff.