Personal Injury Law

CVS Pharmacy Injury

After all the CVS commercials showing warm, friendly moments consumers would likely expect the company to quickly take responsibility for injury to its customers. Yet, a recent trial shows that CVS Pharmacy like most companies seek to avoid responsibility for its carelessness.

A Florida jury considered the injury claims of a customer who was innocently walking in a local CVS pharmacy store. At that time, the customer slipped and fell over a plug in the CVS store that he did not see and did not expect to be on the floor. Interestingly, the CVS Pharmacy store did not place caution or warning signs in the aisle to alert customers to the fact that they were cleaning, despite an unwritten policy to place such caution signs in front of outlets.

As Orlando injury lawyers, we are pleased that at the conclusion of trial, the jury returned a verdict for the customer to compensate for the back and herniated disc injury suffered. Indeed, it is sad that a customer who fell as a result of the store failing to comply with its own policy, and needing to undergo surgery to repair herniated discs had to go through trial. Yet, this is exactly why those suffering injury in retail stores need a lawyer prepared and qualified to go to trial.

Full post as published by Orlando Injury Lawyer Blog on January 12, 2008 (boomark / email).