\u00a0Well, we guess Interlake Material Handling\u00a0will think twice before appealing a jury verdict, and seeking a new trial, if it’s ever sued again.\u00a0 The new verdict wound up being\u00a0nearly $2 million more than the first one.<\/p>\r\n
In the retrial, a jury awarded $12.4 million to Leroy Price, a forklift operator who was paralyzed when shelves holding several thousand pounds of frozen food fell on him in a warehouse in 2001. Rice was 37 at the time of the accident.<\/p>\r\n
That second verdict was $1.8 million more than the verdict back in\u00a0September 2006 in the first trial, when\u00a0a jury in Philadelphia\u00a0awarded Rice only\u00a0$10.6 million.<\/p>\r\n
Interlake had appealed the first verdict,\u00a0and the suit was sent back for a new trial.<\/p>\r\n
During the retrial Interlake claimed that Price\u2019s damage claims were excessive. Rice, in turn, maintained that his paralysis had worsened over the last three years. The jury seemed to agree, awarding him $1.8 million more than his first trial, namely $12.4 million.<\/p>\r\n
Rice \u00a0originally had filed suit several defendants, including\u00a0Interlake, which makes shelving. He charged that the shelves that fell on him were not attached to the wall, and that only bolt held those shelves to the wall.<\/p>\r\n
Before\u00a0the first trial Rice settled with all the defendants for $3.4 million, except Interlake.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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