A Cumberland County jury awarded $3.261 million on Dec. 19 to a woman who claims a slip and fall in a store left her permanently disabled, Mercado v. Delsea Drive Supermarket.
 Daniel Rosner |
Blanca Mercado slipped when a plume of rice spilled from two punctured bags on a shelf at the Delsea Drive Supermarket, d/b/a ShopRite of Vineland, on Feb. 3, 2008, says her lawyer, Daniel Rosner of Rosner & Tucker in Vineland. The plume was five feet long and one foot wide and an expert testified it would have taken at least an hour for the rice to leak out and spread, Rosner says.
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