A customer at a Walmart store in Donaldsonville is suing the retailer after an employee allegedly pushed several grocery carts into the shopper’s cart, causing her to fall to the floor and sustain bruises, abrasions and other injuries.
Plaintiff Beverly Robinson, a Jefferson Parish resident, filed the federal suit against Walmart July 7 in the Eastern District of Louisiana, arguing that she sustained damages of more than $75,000 during the incident in Ascension Parish.
Robinson was carrying several store items she was planning to pay for at the check-out counter when she realized they were too heavy for her to handle, according to the complaint. So she went to get a grocery cart to put the items in, and the injury occurred when Robinson was loading the items into a grocery cart, the lawsuit states..
The complaint accuses Walmart of negligence because the employee failed to properly keep a lookout for customers during her actions and was recklessly handling the shopping carts.
“We want our customers to have a safe and enjoyable shopping experience,” Walmart spokeswoman Abby Williams-Bailey told the Louisiana Record in an email. “We will respond in court as appropriate after we are served with the complaint.”
Robinson has been dealing with “severe and permanent headaches, emotional upset and distress and other psychological sequelae, including shock” as a result of her fall, according to the lawsuit.
The damages claim results from past, current and future drug and hospital treatments, lost wages and earning capacity, mental anguish, emotional upset and loss of enjoyment of life, the lawsuit states. Robinson also alleges she sustained injuries to the head, brain and nervous system.
“As a result of this accident, plaintiff was forced to undergo, and is still undergoing medical treatment, and (has) suffered and will continue to suffer restrictions and limitations on her activities,” the complaint says.