Posted on 05/25/2023 1:15:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Burger King franchisee in Florida, was ordered to pay nearly $8 million to a customer who allegedly slipped and fell at the restaurant and needed surgery for his injuries.
Richard Tulecki, 48, “suffered lower back injuries resulting in surgery” after he slipped on a “foreign substance” near the restroom of a Burger King location in Hollywood, Fla., according to court documents.
The fall caused “serious injuries” which required surgery, and Tulecki suffered a postoperative perforated colon, according to his attorneys.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2021, accused Burger King of negligence for “failing to ensure that the area and floor of the business was free and clear of any hazards.”
A Broward County jury awarded Tulecki $7.8 million in damages, including $3.35 million for lost earnings and $700,000 for medical expenses.
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Lost earnings of over $3 million!? What the hell did he do for a living? And how long was he laid up?
“Tulecki suffered a postoperative perforated colon”
If it was postoperative, shouldn’t he be suing the surgeon?
$3.35 million in lost earnings to a 48-year-old man?
Post-op dinner at burger king.
That’s enough to kill anyone.
Was the foreign substance in the country legally?
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.
Don't seem right.
Morgan & Morgan?
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.
For real.
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/
What, is he paralyzed now? Never able to work again?
I bet he’s sitting out on his yacht, soaking up the rays.
Maybe not, it’s Broward county.
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!”
at the rate Biden’s border crossing pals are coming in we’ll see a lot more foreign substances on the floor
I, too, am wondering what law firm represented the plaintiff.
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