The fall caused the woman to undergo a surgery on her spine, her attorney said.
Dollar Tree has settled a lawsuit by paying $1.75 million to a Bound Brook woman who claimed she was severely injured from slipping and falling on eggs that had broken on the floor of the store, the woman’s attorney said.
The doctor of the woman, 69-year-old Peggy Brown, said she required a surgical procedure to remove the damaged part of a disk in her spine as a result of the accidental fall, according a release from her attorney Michael Heck of Epstein Ostrove, LLC in Edison. The incident occurred at a Dollar Tree store in East Brunswick on Jan. 4, 2019, Heck told NJ Advance Media.
Dollar Tree’s medical expert, Dr. Robert Bercik, said that Brown’s spinal injuries were secondary to degeneration and that any surgical intervention was secondary to degeneration of her cervical spine and not the injuries she sustained in the slip and fall accident, according to the release. He added that she sustained cervical and lumbar sprains in the fall.“After years of litigation, we are satisfied that this settlement represents a positive conclusion to this matter that will allow Ms.
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