Jury awards nearly $17,000,000 to a woman who was injured at Walmart in West Virginia.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A jury in West Virginia has returned a nearly $17 million verdict after a woman was injured when staffers tried to detain a shoplifter in Walmart.A lawyer for 53-year-old Diane Ankrom says employees tried to detain the shoplifter when he ran into her shopping cart, in which she was pushing her granddaughter. Ankrom fell to the ground with the cart falling on top of her.
The jury found Walmart 30 percent responsible and the shoplifter 70 percent, though it's unclear how the money will be split.
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