Plattsmouth man sues Wal-Mart, says overfilled plastic bag led to wife's death

Journal Star ^ | Aug 28, 2013 | Lori Pilger

[kevcol]

Her estate is seeking more than $656,000 in medical expenses, plus an unspecified amount for her pain and suffering and funeral and burial expenses, as well as her husband's loss of consortium.

[PGR88]

Its easier and cheaper for Wal-Mart to settle for $75k, in exchange for silence from this clown, vs spending the time and legal fees to defeat him in court.

[JRandomFreeper]

Is that what they call it now?

/johnny

[matt04]

Why didn’t his wife ask to have it re bagged in two separate bags?

[Vendome]

Life’s a bitch .

Patechia if you break a bone in yer foot.

[mylife]

That’s a lot of Beef Chow Mein!

[workerbee]

1) I hope this is one of those cases of an insurance company (perhaps unbeknownst to the actual "claimant") suing everyone and everything in the hopes of getting something covered;

2) How in the world does one go about proving, in court, that a plastic bag held "too many things"?

[matt04]

Why is he not suing La Choy and the rice vendor? If the cans and bags were not so heavy they would have killed the poor women. /s

[MountainDad]

Now you know why we call that town PlattsMETH!!!

[mylife]

Clown?
In my view Walmart has culpability.

[JoeProBono]

[BenLurkin]

Shop a lot at WalMart.

They have the flimsiest bags of any store I’ve seen. This purchase should have been double bagged — or in multiple bas.

This guy may have a case.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I’m shocked. Usually, the Wal-Mart cashier will triple-bag a fricking greeting card, and use a single bag for each item. I usually bag my own stuff at the store because of this.

[Nepeta]

Wal-Mart tends to underbag. I have to tell them not to overload bags holding canned cat food, and to double bag all the bags containing canned goods. I have to haul everything up about 20 steps from street level~~a torn bag with stuff cascading out is a pain.

[Ramius]

Its easier and cheaper for Wal-Mart to settle for $75k, in exchange for silence from this clown, vs spending the time and legal fees to defeat him in court.

I don't know about this case, but I've heard that WalMart takes ~every~ slip and fall type lawsuit to court. They never settle.

[liberalh8ter]

At some point, Walmart changed their bags and they're so thin now that I couldn't make it home without at least one or two ripping. I always ask them to double bag now because of this. The same thing happened with Publix, as well.

While I understand the can landed on her foot and all but how can they be sure the infection wasn't the result of the hospital or her own care of the wound?

[nascarnation]

I’m not sure which is the proper progressive response...

Mandating only small light cans of food

or

Requiring stores to provide steel toe shoes for customers

[COBOL2Java]

Why didn’t his wife ask to have it re bagged in two separate bags?

Because that would require a) critical thinking; b) responsibility for one's actions.

These have been bred out of the species over the last 50 years.

[Ramius]

Nonsense. Don’t be silly.

[Benito Cereno]

Mrs. Palsgraf to the white courtesy telephone please.