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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is the Costco story?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So it's a California woman who is suing Costco for
more than fourteen million dollars after she said a liquor
cabinet fell on her, which has left her with serious
injuries and a TBI. Sadie Navatni was shopping at fifteen million.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Wait she won that? Oh no, that's what she's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
She's suing for shopping at the Costco in Santa Rosa
when the liquor cabinet fell on her. She said, I
caught the cabinet and pushed it back, but my shoulder, forearm, hand, fingers,
and lower back hurt after the accident, she said it
was because the cabinet had such thin legs and it
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was placed upon a worn wooden pallet that it suddenly collapsed.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And she's getting fourteen million for that.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
They say Costco should have known that there was an
unreasonable risk of harm. So again she's seeking just over
fourteen million dollars in damages. Obviously Costco not responding to
request for comments.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, they're too busy laughing. You think this is an
opening chutcase? The where's the TBI? She said she caught
the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, but it sounds as though she still got injuries
when the cabinet fell on her. She was pinned beneath it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You can't imagine someone getting a brain injury from that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, but she said she hurt her hand, her fingers,
and her shoulder.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, but she said she was pinned.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
She said she caught the cabinet.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, maybe caught was not a correct way to term it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But if you get hurt in a store, do people
just dismiss your claim? I often see I've never gotten
hurt in a store. Yeah, neither have I.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But you'll see things sometimes no where you imagine, and
I'm not talking about somebody who's doing it for fraudulent.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right, like the slip and fall and all that stuff,
but legitimately.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, you'll see like that's dislodged or something that could
trip somebody, and you're just like, that is a real hazard.
Someone's going to get hurt. But you're telling me it
doesn't matter if they get hurt, it just goes away.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I feel like everybody's just so quick to dismiss it
and think it's a scam.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So you don't believe this woman at all? How old
did you say she was?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh? I don't know if I have an age on her.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No. Do I believe that the thing fell maybe? I mean, listen,
do I think she pulled it down on herself? No?
But I don't think she suffered a traumat See, but
that's maybe she.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Doctors told her when she was to the hospital she
had a concussion, but she says she still has lingering
effects from a traumatic brain injury.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You said, Santa Rosa, Yes, she's forty six.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, she has a concussion.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
That's what she said she was diagnosed with when she
went to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You don't make concussions. My kids have had.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Brought on by defective I wish froy million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Christian, Will you do me a favor?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Will I be able to find somebody that's legitimately been
hurt in a store? Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But not everyone then tries to file suits.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
No, no, but just any anybody, anybody, I don't care
if they filed a lawsuit or not. Just anybody who
was hurt in a store. And I don't mean I
don't mean like you got to fight at a store
and you got hurt. No, No, but something out of store. Kristin,
will you do me a favorite? Sorry, Diane, Will you
do me a favor? Will you see if you can
find me somebody who legitimately got hurt or some kind
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of injury at a store, please? Eight sixty six to
Elliott eight six six two three five five four six eight. Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So they list the breakdown of the way that it's
her seeking this over fourteen million dollars, so five million
for emotional distress, five million for pain suffering and inconvenience,
two million for future medical expenses, two million for loss
of future earning capacity. Then there's fifty grand for expenses
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to date and for loss of earnings to date, and
then another ten for loss of household services that'son.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's the ten grand bagoon ten grand? Are you sure
that's what that is? Yes, that's the whole. Like I
can't I can't pleasure or please my partner.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's called household services.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I think I think it depends on jurisdiction. But when
you hear that, like when you hear the breakdown, don't
you hear that and go okay, scam no? And was
it just bad luck? I'm being serious? Was it just
bad luck? That that's when that cabinet fell sounds like it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Now they are blaming the fault is yeah, no and
setup and listen, if that's the case where it was
on rotted wood and stuff, the store is responsible for that.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, But so you agree with her?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, I also don't know if it again. I just
think we are so CONDI that if somebody gets hurt
in a store, it's a scam, slip and fall something.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Do they have photos of the rotten palette?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't see that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do they have photos of the TBI? I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You don't like, this is your problem?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She's terming, I think of people who have traumatic brain injury,
and then you hear somebody has a concussion, and yes,
you could have a severe concussion.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I get that, But isn't that a mild TBI?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Then, but there are people who get like severe traumatic
brain injury and are and I hate this word, but
they're they're left as vegetables from that. I don't know
if we're allowed to say that anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I don't. I don't like that term, but that's that's
how they get coined. Like to me, that's a traumatic
brain Terry Shivo had a traumatic brain injury. So you
think that. I think that's it's it's not all or nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Then saying you have a mild TBI is an oxymoron. Yes,
it's like jembo shrimp.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Absolutely, where am I going? But there are people who
have legitimate, like legitimate injuries at a store. Yeah, nobody
believes them. Where am I going?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Here we go?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm happy all you call? Yah, Hi, yell end the morning.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Me.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Eli? This is a dusty four toed beast out of Frederick.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What's going on? Dude?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
I actually uh slipped at a Target about back in January.
Parking lot was clear, the sidewalk was complete. Ice had
no idea as of walking through the doors. He goo
right out from underneath me. I had a traumatic butt
bone injury, landed right on my back, and a Target
employee pushing carts just walked right on by me, just
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stared at me as if she was saying like.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh too bad, so sad. She stand it right on
my back.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Maybe fill out an incident report. And Target corporate ended
up contacting me. And I shook that tree a little bit,
only got a leaf or two the fall, but you know,
made that traumatic butt injury. A little bit better.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Can I ask you this if you don't mind saying
how much? How much did you get?
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Less than ten thousand?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
More than four thousand? All right, so somewhere in that
six to eight range.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Wait, so they did they settle with you? Did you
even have a lawyer?
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I didn't have didn't have a lawyer.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
They had someone from corporate called me up after completing
the incident report and they just asked me a bunch
of questions and they had me sign a document that
I wouldn't seek any other legal or medical advice or
you know, treatment, and that it was pretty much a
wash once they cut that check.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, you get that check. This is a done deal, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But do you still think it was?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
It was more embarrassment than anything else. I mean, I
was sore for there too, but it was more to see,
you know, the ambassies. But there's no fault down on
the sidewalk at all.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But there's no like lingering effects then, no, no, no, no,
you know what the lingering effects were?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What I bought with my fourteen thousand dollars fourteen thousand
between four and four and ten. That's great, though, that's great.
Good for you all do I appreciate it, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
If something were to pop up in the future, is
what he signed. Completely ironclad. Yes, usually say you can
get out of stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah what if you if you end up paralyzed or something.
But he's not going to end up paralyzed. But the
trust me, these lawyers know like those are written, it's
not it's not the you know, some guy on a
street corner on legal zoom. This is a guy who
you don't think Target knows that when they cut that
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check there is no coming back.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, there is.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I mean he would have to honestly, he do you
know how bad he would have to deteriorate for that
to be to go over and then be able to
prove that his buttons was from something else. He was
a pretty ironclad right line. Six Hi Yelli of the morning.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Good morning.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
My daughter had her toe broken by a shelf falling
on in Stride right about twelve years.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Ago at a stride right as Strada right.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Maybe that's why they went bankrupt, and it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Was just it was just random happenstance that the that
the shelf fell on her toe, she was.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Reaching up to get something.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
But it wasn't like locked.
Speaker 11 (09:33):
In or secured and it's the kid's.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Store, and it fell on her toe and the employee
just got ice and she was crying and they took
her out and.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Nothing happened then.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
But after I got home, I wrote an email just like, hey, FYI,
you should secure your shelves.
Speaker 11 (09:48):
This is what happened to my daughter.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
And they responded right away and offered to send us
a check for like I think it was like three
or four hundred dollars worth of shoes there and signed
something that we wouldn't go any further than that, and
we took it.
Speaker 11 (10:04):
I had five kids, so it was worth it.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
No, good for you in total, heal, that's no big deal.
Good for you, Good for you, that's not bad. All right,
very good. Oh does she hear the target guy and go?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You gotta be f and kidding me seriously, Although if
I'm stride right, I would have said to her, I
know you were there for worn out shoes, right.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That layer near the toe diminished? Line two, Hi, Elliet
of the morning. Hello, all right, Oh, yes, hi, I'm
sorry I thought you cut out because of the guy
on the good morning. Yes, ma'am. What can I do
for you? Hi?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Good morning.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
I was on a jury for a store injury for
a pretty large department store, and all of us on
the jury were definitely not in favor of the person's
doing the department.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Store, because now, what was the claim? What was their claim?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
So they walked down a escalator that was not moving,
and they slipped and fell, and they felt that the
store should have had signage that was appropriate for them
to not walk down a non moving escalator. And they
claimed they had all of these injuries and had these
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neck injuries and had to have botox injections like every
two weeks.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
And after three days of trial, they actually ended up
settling outside of court, which I don't know what that
final amount was, and it had they gone through with
the trial, they wouldn't have had the Disney thing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Now, wow, no kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Everyone on the jury was like, this is crazy, Like,
you literally walked down basically a staircase, right.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You know what, I thought you were going to say,
thank you, ma'am. I thought she was going to say
that it started to move now and that's what Dan,
you're on that person? Yeah? Yeah, but how about that
the store the store paid for no reason? Yeah, but
you see what I mean. Anytime anybody gets hurt, you're like, nah,
it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I do get nervous when I have to walk up
or down. It just happened to me at Target the
other day. A non moving escalator. Oh yeah, it's just awkward. Yeah,
and not because I worry that it's going to start up.
It's just it's not temporarily stares.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
The no no, because in your mind it moves like
it's like there's something wrong with it. Like you go
to Capital One Arena and they had those signs up
that are like, escalators not moving, We're conserving energy. I'm like, no,
go ahead and waste the energy. Get me up there.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They say, we're conserving energy.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Conserving energy. Yeah, is it like an Earth Day thing?
A random Tuesday night against Vancouver is not Earth Day?
Is it the whatever day Earth? There is no. But
you'll you'll show up at Capitol one Arena and they
won't have the escalators going. Oh now. I don't know
if that's part of like the refurbishment or whatever, but yeah,
they'll just say we're conserving, we're conserving energy.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Pay attention next Wednesday, April twenty second, twenty twenty six Tyler.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's all the time, Oh, all the time. That's not
just that one day. No, no, I mean it's just
a random game. It's not set up for anything. It's
not like Green Night. Well for my green it should be,
but it's not like Green Night at the arena. They'll
just be off. That's climate pledge arena. Isn't that the cracking?
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That is the cracking? Very good? Hi Jelly in the morning. Hi, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Hi?
Speaker 10 (13:41):
I'm Sam.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You got heard at a store?
Speaker 12 (13:44):
Yeah, this is years ago, though it was a little
bit before my high school graduation. It was also at
a target. We were walking in and I don't know,
I guess like they're a little like maintenance room or whatever,
was having a league and they didn't put up like
a well floor sign or I don't even think they
noticed yet, and so like while my mom and I
were talking, I just kind of slipped on it. And
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there was actually a woman walking by. She's like, oh,
you guys, like she flipped.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
She slipped because I don't think the.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Employees had even noticed yet, right.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
So you know, I filed a little report too.
Speaker 12 (14:17):
I don't remember if they made me sign anything. I
do know they were saying they were going to review
the footage. I guess to make sure, like I actually
slipped and wasn't taking it sure, And they did like
send me a couple of months later a check, but
it wasn't very much. I don't remember the exact amount,
but it was less than four thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Was it more? But was it in the thousands?
Speaker 12 (14:38):
And honestly no, I think it was just barely.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Over a thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's one thousand dollars more than you went to the
store with.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Were you Were you even hurt though at all? Or
was it just because you fell?
Speaker 12 (14:55):
I kind of just like my ankle was kind of
a little bit twisted. That was just about it. But
it wasn't care but you know a little bit before
our graduation. I mean, it is kind of inconvenient and
you know, but you know, nothing that's some ice and
whatever wouldn't put on it. But it wasn't like a
really greatful because there was a lot of water that
was billed on there. So I guess they just wanted
to cover their bases.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, sure, absolutely. And if you didn't trust me, your parents,
did somebody sign something that said that that that that
is where it ends. All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am,
thank you, and we definitely will. Would you have even
like what how I'm trying to think in my head,
like how bad would it have to be before he
even said something to the store like broken toe? Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Or what if you like like twisted your.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Knee, like twisted my knee, yeah, and it hurts.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I also think too, it would depend on the amount
of negligence you ascribe to the situation.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Right, Like I guess if that should be a big
puddle of water though I walked through parking lots that
have water in it.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
No, but I'm just saying, I walk through the back.
It's clear. You don't see it. The floor slippery right, No, No,
your knee.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But if you just fell down from that, I don't
even know. Granted, somebody was yelling, you know, she fell,
But I don't even know that. I would go she
got a thousand dollars. I don't even know that.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I opened my mouth, and we want the cash versus
store credit.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh, I don't want store credit. No, No, it's too
dangerous to come back to Hoby right, Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
When I was little in the pet section of Woolworth's.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I got.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He hasn't said what happened yet. I got my necktie
caught in an escalator. I got bit by a monkey.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
They had a monkey at Woolworth's.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And he got from Woolworth's a band aid.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Did you know you had that in common with him?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Our monkey bite?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Were those known as dangerous parts of Woolworth's.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Tyler, there's wild monkeys in there?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
What what woolworth again had a monkey in it.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't know that I've ever been in a Woolworth's,
So I don't know. Hasn't Wolworve's been closed since like
nineteen thirty forever?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But I vaguely remember like a pet section, but you
were lucky if there was like a puppy in there.
It was fish and like frogs.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
If the pets. The Woolworves had a pet section, I believe.
So wasn't Woolworth's like like like Macy's. Wasn't it a
department store? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It was more like a five and dives.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, not like fancy or like Macy's.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Just like, what's an example now Torrid?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You wouldn't know if there is an example now Kmart?
I mean I guess if kmarts are still open?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
No, no, no, but like, would that have been an example?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You're close, you're close. Not exactly the same, but you're close.
But I'm looking here at an old ad. They definitely
had birds the wow. Yeah kmart didn't have animals. No,
I mean some of the customers were No, that's not necessary.
Oh and you could win a puppy from Woolworth's.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And a monkey, a monkey that sounds suss.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, you don't believe him. You think he was just
doing it for the everybody else, like everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And then he was a bandid son.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
It was a different time line. Hi ellieh the morning.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Hey, I was on a jury once and a woman
she was pulling a shirt off like a high shelf
at ross and a mental skillet fell and shattered her foot.
And she was like a dental person, so like all
of her tools were like feet operated, and so she
shoot the store because she couldn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Hey, did the jury did it make it too? Did
it make it to deliberations?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah, they gave her like a couple hundred that we
gave her a couple hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Did you really.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yeah? Because she couldn't work anymore, and so she basically said, like,
all my tools are activated and because you because I
shot in my foot, I can't work, And so they
gave her basically lots of work like a salary.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
When the when the case first started, did everybody go like, oh,
this is bo sheet like we're people? Were people dismiss
as above it right away, But as they.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Got into it, they like weighed the skillet and they
were like how high was the shelf and then they
did the math on how like fast the skillet had
to be falling for it to shatter someone's foot.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh my god. Wow, they really went after it. But
you listen, they want a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Good for them, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
All right, dude, I appreciate it. And that's just from
somebody putting some jackass putting a skillet up high. Somebody
goes to pull something out, next thing you know, boom,
down goes the skillet And that was the customer doing it. Yeah,
your pal rights.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I was on a jury for a case where a
Walmart associate dropped a fire pit on a woman's head.
Oh my god, was she okay? Everyone else was skeptical.
But I got her fourteen k It's not hundreds of
thousands of dollars. I would take fourteen thousand. If you
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dropped a like a like a fire pit on my.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Head, well your family would. She's lucky she didn't die.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
How are people skeptical about that an employee was involved?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It's probably like one of those like itny light fire pits.
There's some heft. Yeah, if an employee drops something, you
know how I would sit at the defendant's table like this,
staring at a balloon line five.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Hi Elliott, the morning, Good morning Elliott.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
How are you? I'm doing great? Thank you? What can
I do for you?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
So, my name's Amanda, and I'm currently in litigation from
a flipping in a business in Washington, d C. At
a spa. I fell and I've had surgery. I've had
been in physical therapy for more than a year and
a half and we are still litigating.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So you so you were at a spa? Where did
you say? Where? Just somewhere in d C. Or I'm
hearing in George, like Georgetown to me, the now did
they how? Why was there water? Like you weren't? Don't
tell me you were in the shower area, but like
was there like water where is there shouldn't have been water,
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So there.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Was water where it should be. However, they the floor
was white and they had left the shower door open
with the water on. And the floor in the mate
area was not an appropriate mat for a bathroom. And
I stepped down the mat and and I went flying
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naked through the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Bagoon down, bagoon down. That's embarrassing, right, you're laying on
my God, Yeah, you got bush and ass all over
the place. Hey, So but let me ask you this,
what is the like? What when you said you had surgery?
What did you have to have surgery on?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
So when I fell, my arms I apparently were flailing
right to try to catch me, and I hyper extended
my thumb area all the way back. When it extended
all the way back, it leaked a lot of fluid
and caused a cyst in the scaphoid bone and it
was on the verge of bursting, and so they had
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to go in and clean out the cyst and clean
up the bone. And I'm also a licensed mail technician
for over twenty six years, so I actually work in
a spot part time. And it has prevented me for
over a year and a half of doing my job
because I've been in and out of cast and at
you know, obviously an incision with lots of physical therapy
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to get motion back in my wrist.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What is the SPA saying other than go pound sand?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Well, they they're basically saying, no, one's denying that I fell.
They don't feel like they're liable for the slip and falls.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So they just think, you know, you you you, you
stepped in some water whatever, you're in a SPA that
it happened. Hey, what is the can I ask? Can
I ask how much are you suing for?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I'm no exactly. Let my attorneys handle all of that.
They definitely have asked for a significant amount because it has.
It has affected my career, my job, and it's permanent. Right,
I've had surgery now, so it's it definitely was in
the six figure range. However, they do not want to settle.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
The SPA doesn't want to settle.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
No, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
By the way, can I can I be annoyed at
you for one second?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Six figure range could be one hundred thousand dollars or
nine hundred ninety nine, nine hundred, ninety nine thousands.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Like two hundred, like two hundred, around the two hundred
thousand range.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
If they cut you a check, if they came in tomorrow,
We're like, listen, we'll give you a check for thirty
five thousand dollars. Are you going to take that? Or no?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Thirty five thousand? Uh, based on all the medical expenses
in the amount of pay that I was out of. No,
my attorney wouldn't settle for that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Did you ask for money for household?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
No, So that thing still works. I hit it, but
it still works. All right, I do too. All right,
very good, very good. Let me let me know how
that turns out.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Okay, I sure will, thank you, all right, very.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Good, Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, Diane. He's envious of
all these people. He doesn't feel bad for any of them.
He wishes he was them. So for you haven't given
me an injury that I wouldn't take the money for.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
What if you had an injury to like your voice box,
and you couldn't do this.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Job like a monkey bit it? I was gonna say
a skillet fell off it, I'd still do it. So
what if I came in here. I don't have a
good voice to begin with. So if I came in
it was like, well kendelliat the morning who cares?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, Then you know what, I'd make the company fire
me and then I'd sue them. Yeah, that's got to
be some kind of discrimination.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Is there a good track record of former employees successfully
defending themselves against the company?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Who do I know somebody got paid out not for
because they got hit in the throat? Don't we know
somebody that got an.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Injury and as because of an injury?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of corruption.
I don't know. I had no idea. Did we know
somebody that got paid off.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Recently?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, not recently, but didn't come on? Don't we know
somebody who got like some.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Kind of unlawful termination?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I know, I do know. I mean this goes way back,
but I do. I do know a woman that got
paid out heavily by the company. Heavily. But was that
even iHeart it may have been clear channel right. They
wrote a bad word about her on a easel.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh I remember that.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, you can call me that name all day for
that kind of money.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
Pretty much, that's not the lesson that which I have
accused of people here of doing. Oh the guy got
fired for doing that here.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Absolutely different kind of satan.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But last thing, last thing, there was a guy who
was in I don't know where Murray connect or Kentucky is.
He got arrested last week for this is like a
store related issue. They don't say what the business is,
but they say what he did to the store. So
a little bit the other way. He got in trouble
for what he did to a store. But did other
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customers get hurt by his accents? One customer was affected
by it? Yeah, well the customer. What did the guy do? Oh,
he let a wild raccoon loosen the store customer got
bit by it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Hoby, See, that's believable forbe
What is the Costco story?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So it's a California woman who is suing Costco for
more than fourteen million dollars after she said a liquor
cabinet fell on her, which has left her with serious
injuries and a TBI. Sadie Navatni was shopping at fifteen million.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Wait she won that? Oh no, that's what she's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
She's suing for shopping at the Costco in Santa Rosa
when the liquor cabinet fell on her. She said, I
caught the cabinet and pushed it back, but my shoulder, forearm, hand, fingers,
and lower back hurt after the accident, she said it
was because the cabinet had such thin legs and it
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was placed upon a worn wooden pallet that it suddenly collapsed.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And she's getting fourteen million for that.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
They say Costco should have known that there was an
unreasonable risk of harm. So again she's seeking just over
fourteen million dollars in damages. Obviously Costco not responding to
request for comments.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, they're too busy laughing. You think this is an
opening chutcase? The where's the TBI? She said she caught
the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, but it sounds as though she still got injuries
when the cabinet fell on her. She was pinned beneath it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You can't imagine someone getting a brain injury from that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, but she said she hurt her hand, her fingers,
and her shoulder.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, but she said she was pinned.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
She said she caught the cabinet.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, maybe caught was not a correct way to term it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But if you get hurt in a store, do people
just dismiss your claim? I often see I've never gotten
hurt in a store. Yeah, neither have I.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But you'll see things sometimes no where you imagine, and
I'm not talking about somebody who's doing it for fraudulent.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right, like the slip and fall and all that stuff,
but legitimately.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, you'll see like that's dislodged or something that could
trip somebody, and you're just like, that is a real hazard.
Someone's going to get hurt. But you're telling me it
doesn't matter if they get hurt, it just goes away.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I feel like everybody's just so quick to dismiss it
and think it's a scam.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So you don't believe this woman at all? How old
did you say she was?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh? I don't know if I have an age on her.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No. Do I believe that the thing fell maybe? I mean, listen,
do I think she pulled it down on herself? No?
But I don't think she suffered a traumat See, but
that's maybe she.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Doctors told her when she was to the hospital she
had a concussion, but she says she still has lingering
effects from a traumatic brain injury.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You said, Santa Rosa, Yes, she's forty six.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, she has a concussion.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
That's what she said she was diagnosed with when she
went to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You don't make concussions. My kids have had.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Brought on by defective I wish froy million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Christian, Will you do me a favor?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Will I be able to find somebody that's legitimately been
hurt in a store? Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But not everyone then tries to file suits.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
No, no, but just any anybody, anybody, I don't care
if they filed a lawsuit or not. Just anybody who
was hurt in a store. And I don't mean I
don't mean like you got to fight at a store
and you got hurt. No, No, but something out of store. Kristin,
will you do me a favorite? Sorry, Diane, Will you
do me a favor? Will you see if you can
find me somebody who legitimately got hurt or some kind
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of injury at a store, please? Eight sixty six to
Elliott eight six six two three five five four six eight. Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So they list the breakdown of the way that it's
her seeking this over fourteen million dollars, so five million
for emotional distress, five million for pain suffering and inconvenience,
two million for future medical expenses, two million for loss
of future earning capacity. Then there's fifty grand for expenses
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to date and for loss of earnings to date, and
then another ten for loss of household services that'son.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's the ten grand bagoon ten grand? Are you sure
that's what that is? Yes, that's the whole. Like I
can't I can't pleasure or please my partner.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's called household services.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I think I think it depends on jurisdiction. But when
you hear that, like when you hear the breakdown, don't
you hear that and go okay, scam no? And was
it just bad luck? I'm being serious? Was it just
bad luck? That that's when that cabinet fell sounds like it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Now they are blaming the fault is yeah, no and
setup and listen, if that's the case where it was
on rotted wood and stuff, the store is responsible for that.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, But so you agree with her?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, I also don't know if it again. I just
think we are so CONDI that if somebody gets hurt
in a store, it's a scam, slip and fall something.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Do they have photos of the rotten palette?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't see that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do they have photos of the TBI? I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You don't like, this is your problem?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She's terming, I think of people who have traumatic brain injury,
and then you hear somebody has a concussion, and yes,
you could have a severe concussion.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I get that, But isn't that a mild TBI?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Then, but there are people who get like severe traumatic
brain injury and are and I hate this word, but
they're they're left as vegetables from that. I don't know
if we're allowed to say that anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I don't. I don't like that term, but that's that's
how they get coined. Like to me, that's a traumatic
brain Terry Shivo had a traumatic brain injury. So you
think that. I think that's it's it's not all or nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Then saying you have a mild TBI is an oxymoron. Yes,
it's like jembo shrimp.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Absolutely, where am I going? But there are people who
have legitimate, like legitimate injuries at a store. Yeah, nobody
believes them. Where am I going?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Here we go?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm happy all you call? Yah, Hi, yell end the morning.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Me.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Eli? This is a dusty four toed beast out of Frederick.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What's going on? Dude?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
I actually uh slipped at a Target about back in January.
Parking lot was clear, the sidewalk was complete. Ice had
no idea as of walking through the doors. He goo
right out from underneath me. I had a traumatic butt
bone injury, landed right on my back, and a Target
employee pushing carts just walked right on by me, just
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stared at me as if she was saying like.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh too bad, so sad. She stand it right on
my back.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Maybe fill out an incident report. And Target corporate ended
up contacting me. And I shook that tree a little bit,
only got a leaf or two the fall, but you know,
made that traumatic butt injury. A little bit better.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Can I ask you this if you don't mind saying
how much? How much did you get?
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Less than ten thousand?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
More than four thousand? All right, so somewhere in that
six to eight range.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Wait, so they did they settle with you? Did you
even have a lawyer?
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I didn't have didn't have a lawyer.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
They had someone from corporate called me up after completing
the incident report and they just asked me a bunch
of questions and they had me sign a document that
I wouldn't seek any other legal or medical advice or
you know, treatment, and that it was pretty much a
wash once they cut that check.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, you get that check. This is a done deal, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But do you still think it was?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
It was more embarrassment than anything else. I mean, I
was sore for there too, but it was more to see,
you know, the ambassies. But there's no fault down on
the sidewalk at all.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But there's no like lingering effects then, no, no, no, no,
you know what the lingering effects were?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What I bought with my fourteen thousand dollars fourteen thousand
between four and four and ten. That's great, though, that's great.
Good for you all do I appreciate it, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
If something were to pop up in the future, is
what he signed. Completely ironclad. Yes, usually say you can
get out of stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah what if you if you end up paralyzed or something.
But he's not going to end up paralyzed. But the
trust me, these lawyers know like those are written, it's
not it's not the you know, some guy on a
street corner on legal zoom. This is a guy who
you don't think Target knows that when they cut that
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check there is no coming back.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, there is.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I mean he would have to honestly, he do you
know how bad he would have to deteriorate for that
to be to go over and then be able to
prove that his buttons was from something else. He was
a pretty ironclad right line. Six Hi Yelli of the morning.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Good morning.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
My daughter had her toe broken by a shelf falling
on in Stride right about twelve years.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Ago at a stride right as Strada right.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Maybe that's why they went bankrupt, and it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Was just it was just random happenstance that the that
the shelf fell on her toe, she was.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Reaching up to get something.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
But it wasn't like locked.
Speaker 11 (09:33):
In or secured and it's the kid's.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
Store, and it fell on her toe and the employee
just got ice and she was crying and they took
her out and.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Nothing happened then.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
But after I got home, I wrote an email just like, hey, FYI,
you should secure your shelves.
Speaker 11 (09:48):
This is what happened to my daughter.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
And they responded right away and offered to send us
a check for like I think it was like three
or four hundred dollars worth of shoes there and signed
something that we wouldn't go any further than that, and
we took it.
Speaker 11 (10:04):
I had five kids, so it was worth it.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
No, good for you in total, heal, that's no big deal.
Good for you, Good for you, that's not bad. All right,
very good. Oh does she hear the target guy and go?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You gotta be f and kidding me seriously, Although if
I'm stride right, I would have said to her, I
know you were there for worn out shoes, right.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That layer near the toe diminished? Line two, Hi, Elliet
of the morning. Hello, all right, Oh, yes, hi, I'm
sorry I thought you cut out because of the guy
on the good morning. Yes, ma'am. What can I do
for you? Hi?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Good morning.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
I was on a jury for a store injury for
a pretty large department store, and all of us on
the jury were definitely not in favor of the person's
doing the department.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Store, because now, what was the claim? What was their claim?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
So they walked down a escalator that was not moving,
and they slipped and fell, and they felt that the
store should have had signage that was appropriate for them
to not walk down a non moving escalator. And they
claimed they had all of these injuries and had these
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neck injuries and had to have botox injections like every
two weeks.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
And after three days of trial, they actually ended up
settling outside of court, which I don't know what that
final amount was, and it had they gone through with
the trial, they wouldn't have had the Disney thing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Now, wow, no kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Everyone on the jury was like, this is crazy, Like,
you literally walked down basically a staircase, right.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You know what, I thought you were going to say,
thank you, ma'am. I thought she was going to say
that it started to move now and that's what Dan,
you're on that person? Yeah? Yeah, but how about that
the store the store paid for no reason? Yeah, but
you see what I mean. Anytime anybody gets hurt, you're like, nah,
it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I do get nervous when I have to walk up
or down. It just happened to me at Target the
other day. A non moving escalator. Oh yeah, it's just awkward. Yeah,
and not because I worry that it's going to start up.
It's just it's not temporarily stares.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
The no no, because in your mind it moves like
it's like there's something wrong with it. Like you go
to Capital One Arena and they had those signs up
that are like, escalators not moving, We're conserving energy. I'm like, no,
go ahead and waste the energy. Get me up there.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They say, we're conserving energy.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Conserving energy. Yeah, is it like an Earth Day thing?
A random Tuesday night against Vancouver is not Earth Day?
Is it the whatever day Earth? There is no. But
you'll you'll show up at Capitol one Arena and they
won't have the escalators going. Oh now. I don't know
if that's part of like the refurbishment or whatever, but yeah,
they'll just say we're conserving, we're conserving energy.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Pay attention next Wednesday, April twenty second, twenty twenty six Tyler.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's all the time, Oh, all the time. That's not
just that one day. No, no, I mean it's just
a random game. It's not set up for anything. It's
not like Green Night. Well for my green it should be,
but it's not like Green Night at the arena. They'll
just be off. That's climate pledge arena. Isn't that the cracking?
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That is the cracking? Very good? Hi Jelly in the morning. Hi, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Hi?
Speaker 10 (13:41):
I'm Sam.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You got heard at a store?
Speaker 12 (13:44):
Yeah, this is years ago, though it was a little
bit before my high school graduation. It was also at
a target. We were walking in and I don't know,
I guess like they're a little like maintenance room or whatever,
was having a league and they didn't put up like
a well floor sign or I don't even think they
noticed yet, and so like while my mom and I
were talking, I just kind of slipped on it. And
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there was actually a woman walking by. She's like, oh,
you guys, like she flipped.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
She slipped because I don't think the.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Employees had even noticed yet, right.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
So you know, I filed a little report too.
Speaker 12 (14:17):
I don't remember if they made me sign anything. I
do know they were saying they were going to review
the footage. I guess to make sure, like I actually
slipped and wasn't taking it sure, And they did like
send me a couple of months later a check, but
it wasn't very much. I don't remember the exact amount,
but it was less than four thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Was it more? But was it in the thousands?
Speaker 12 (14:38):
And honestly no, I think it was just barely.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Over a thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's one thousand dollars more than you went to the
store with.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Were you Were you even hurt though at all? Or
was it just because you fell?
Speaker 12 (14:55):
I kind of just like my ankle was kind of
a little bit twisted. That was just about it. But
it wasn't care but you know a little bit before
our graduation. I mean, it is kind of inconvenient and
you know, but you know, nothing that's some ice and
whatever wouldn't put on it. But it wasn't like a
really greatful because there was a lot of water that
was billed on there. So I guess they just wanted
to cover their bases.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, sure, absolutely. And if you didn't trust me, your parents,
did somebody sign something that said that that that that
is where it ends. All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am,
thank you, and we definitely will. Would you have even
like what how I'm trying to think in my head,
like how bad would it have to be before he
even said something to the store like broken toe? Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Or what if you like like twisted your.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Knee, like twisted my knee, yeah, and it hurts.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I also think too, it would depend on the amount
of negligence you ascribe to the situation.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Right, Like I guess if that should be a big
puddle of water though I walked through parking lots that
have water in it.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
No, but I'm just saying, I walk through the back.
It's clear. You don't see it. The floor slippery right, No, No,
your knee.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But if you just fell down from that, I don't
even know. Granted, somebody was yelling, you know, she fell,
But I don't even know that. I would go she
got a thousand dollars. I don't even know that.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I opened my mouth, and we want the cash versus
store credit.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh, I don't want store credit. No, No, it's too
dangerous to come back to Hoby right, Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
When I was little in the pet section of Woolworth's.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I got.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
He hasn't said what happened yet. I got my necktie
caught in an escalator. I got bit by a monkey.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
They had a monkey at Woolworth's.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And he got from Woolworth's a band aid.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Did you know you had that in common with him?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Our monkey bite?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Were those known as dangerous parts of Woolworth's.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Tyler, there's wild monkeys in there?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
What what woolworth again had a monkey in it.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't know that I've ever been in a Woolworth's,
So I don't know. Hasn't Wolworve's been closed since like
nineteen thirty forever?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But I vaguely remember like a pet section, but you
were lucky if there was like a puppy in there.
It was fish and like frogs.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
If the pets. The Woolworves had a pet section, I believe.
So wasn't Woolworth's like like like Macy's. Wasn't it a
department store? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It was more like a five and dives.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, not like fancy or like Macy's.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Just like, what's an example now Torrid?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You wouldn't know if there is an example now Kmart?
I mean I guess if kmarts are still open?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
No, no, no, but like, would that have been an example?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You're close, you're close. Not exactly the same, but you're close.
But I'm looking here at an old ad. They definitely
had birds the wow. Yeah kmart didn't have animals. No,
I mean some of the customers were No, that's not necessary.
Oh and you could win a puppy from Woolworth's.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And a monkey, a monkey that sounds suss.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, you don't believe him. You think he was just
doing it for the everybody else, like everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And then he was a bandid son.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
It was a different time line. Hi ellieh the morning.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Hey, I was on a jury once and a woman
she was pulling a shirt off like a high shelf
at ross and a mental skillet fell and shattered her foot.
And she was like a dental person, so like all
of her tools were like feet operated, and so she
shoot the store because she couldn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Hey, did the jury did it make it too? Did
it make it to deliberations?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah, they gave her like a couple hundred that we
gave her a couple hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Did you really.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yeah? Because she couldn't work anymore, and so she basically said, like,
all my tools are activated and because you because I
shot in my foot, I can't work, And so they
gave her basically lots of work like a salary.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
When the when the case first started, did everybody go like, oh,
this is bo sheet like we're people? Were people dismiss
as above it right away, But as they.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Got into it, they like weighed the skillet and they
were like how high was the shelf and then they
did the math on how like fast the skillet had
to be falling for it to shatter someone's foot.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh my god. Wow, they really went after it. But
you listen, they want a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Good for them, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
All right, dude, I appreciate it. And that's just from
somebody putting some jackass putting a skillet up high. Somebody
goes to pull something out, next thing you know, boom,
down goes the skillet And that was the customer doing it. Yeah,
your pal rights.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I was on a jury for a case where a
Walmart associate dropped a fire pit on a woman's head.
Oh my god, was she okay? Everyone else was skeptical.
But I got her fourteen k It's not hundreds of
thousands of dollars. I would take fourteen thousand. If you
(20:12):
dropped a like a like a fire pit on my.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Head, well your family would. She's lucky she didn't die.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
How are people skeptical about that an employee was involved?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It's probably like one of those like itny light fire pits.
There's some heft. Yeah, if an employee drops something, you
know how I would sit at the defendant's table like this,
staring at a balloon line five.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Hi Elliott, the morning, Good morning Elliott.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
How are you? I'm doing great? Thank you? What can
I do for you?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
So, my name's Amanda, and I'm currently in litigation from
a flipping in a business in Washington, d C. At
a spa. I fell and I've had surgery. I've had
been in physical therapy for more than a year and
a half and we are still litigating.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So you so you were at a spa? Where did
you say? Where? Just somewhere in d C. Or I'm
hearing in George, like Georgetown to me, the now did
they how? Why was there water? Like you weren't? Don't
tell me you were in the shower area, but like
was there like water where is there shouldn't have been water,
(21:38):
So there.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Was water where it should be. However, they the floor
was white and they had left the shower door open
with the water on. And the floor in the mate
area was not an appropriate mat for a bathroom. And
I stepped down the mat and and I went flying
(22:02):
naked through the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Bagoon down, bagoon down. That's embarrassing, right, you're laying on
my God, Yeah, you got bush and ass all over
the place. Hey, So but let me ask you this,
what is the like? What when you said you had surgery?
What did you have to have surgery on?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
So when I fell, my arms I apparently were flailing
right to try to catch me, and I hyper extended
my thumb area all the way back. When it extended
all the way back, it leaked a lot of fluid
and caused a cyst in the scaphoid bone and it
was on the verge of bursting, and so they had
(22:47):
to go in and clean out the cyst and clean
up the bone. And I'm also a licensed mail technician
for over twenty six years, so I actually work in
a spot part time. And it has prevented me for
over a year and a half of doing my job
because I've been in and out of cast and at
you know, obviously an incision with lots of physical therapy
(23:07):
to get motion back in my wrist.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What is the SPA saying other than go pound sand?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Well, they they're basically saying, no, one's denying that I fell.
They don't feel like they're liable for the slip and falls.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So they just think, you know, you you you, you
stepped in some water whatever, you're in a SPA that
it happened. Hey, what is the can I ask? Can
I ask how much are you suing for?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I'm no exactly. Let my attorneys handle all of that.
They definitely have asked for a significant amount because it has.
It has affected my career, my job, and it's permanent. Right,
I've had surgery now, so it's it definitely was in
the six figure range. However, they do not want to settle.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
The SPA doesn't want to settle.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
No, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
By the way, can I can I be annoyed at
you for one second?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Six figure range could be one hundred thousand dollars or
nine hundred ninety nine, nine hundred, ninety nine thousands.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Like two hundred, like two hundred, around the two hundred
thousand range.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
If they cut you a check, if they came in tomorrow,
We're like, listen, we'll give you a check for thirty
five thousand dollars. Are you going to take that? Or no?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Thirty five thousand? Uh, based on all the medical expenses
in the amount of pay that I was out of. No,
my attorney wouldn't settle for that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Did you ask for money for household?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
No, So that thing still works. I hit it, but
it still works. All right, I do too. All right,
very good, very good. Let me let me know how
that turns out.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Okay, I sure will, thank you, all right, very.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Good, Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, Diane. He's envious of
all these people. He doesn't feel bad for any of them.
He wishes he was them. So for you haven't given
me an injury that I wouldn't take the money for.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
What if you had an injury to like your voice box,
and you couldn't do this.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Job like a monkey bit it? I was gonna say
a skillet fell off it, I'd still do it. So
what if I came in here. I don't have a
good voice to begin with. So if I came in
it was like, well kendelliat the morning who cares?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, Then you know what, I'd make the company fire
me and then I'd sue them. Yeah, that's got to
be some kind of discrimination.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Is there a good track record of former employees successfully
defending themselves against the company?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Who do I know somebody got paid out not for
because they got hit in the throat? Don't we know
somebody that got an.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Injury and as because of an injury?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of corruption.
I don't know. I had no idea. Did we know
somebody that got paid off.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Recently?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, not recently, but didn't come on? Don't we know
somebody who got like some.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Kind of unlawful termination?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I know, I do know. I mean this goes way back,
but I do. I do know a woman that got
paid out heavily by the company. Heavily. But was that
even iHeart it may have been clear channel right. They
wrote a bad word about her on a easel.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh I remember that.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, you can call me that name all day for
that kind of money.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
Pretty much, that's not the lesson that which I have
accused of people here of doing. Oh the guy got
fired for doing that here.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Absolutely different kind of satan.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But last thing, last thing, there was a guy who
was in I don't know where Murray connect or Kentucky is.
He got arrested last week for this is like a
store related issue. They don't say what the business is,
but they say what he did to the store. So
a little bit the other way. He got in trouble
for what he did to a store. But did other
(27:15):
customers get hurt by his accents? One customer was affected
by it? Yeah, well the customer. What did the guy do? Oh,
he let a wild raccoon loosen the store customer got
bit by it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Hoby, See, that's believable forbe
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