PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh couple have filed suit against Walmart after the wife-plaintiff fell and suffered injuries near the checkout and exit area to the retailer’s store in West Mifflin.
Theresa Allard and Charles Allard of Pittsburgh filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Sept. 14 versus Walmart, Inc., of Bentonville, Ark.
The Allards say Theresa was shopping in the Walmart store in West Mifflin on Jan. 30, 2019, when she fell on spilled water, liquid or a discarded substance on the concrete floor of defendant’s premises – which, additionally, the plaintiffs say was the result of the defendant’s negligence in failing to make the premises safe for shoppers, failing to remove the liquid and failing to warn shoppers of the dangerous condition.
As a result, the plaintiffs say Theresa suffered injury and damage to the nerves, joints intervertebral discs, blood vessels and surrounding soft tissue of the cervical spine, injury with damage to the bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, nerves, muscles and intervertebral discs of the lumbar and lumbosacral spine, injury with damage to the bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, nerves, muscles and surrounding soft tissues of the left and right shoulders, right hip joint and right wrist, assorted abrasions and contusions of the body and other severe injuries.
The plaintiffs add they will need to spend large sums of monies for medical and surgical attention, hospitalization, medical supplies, surgical appliances, medicines and attendant services.
For counts of negligence and loss of consortium, the plaintiffs are seeking damages in excess of $35,000, and a trial by jury.
The plaintiffs represented by Michael Balzarini of Balzarini & Watson, in Pittsburgh.
The defendant has not yet secured legal counsel.
Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas case GD-20-009724
From the Pennsylvania Record: Reach Courts Reporter Nicholas Malfitano at nick.malfitano@therecordinc.com