Confidential Settlement Awarded

Marasco & Nesselbush, LLP, a leading Providence-based injury law firm, settled a case with a Supermarket Chain for general premises liability in a case that resulted in lifelong disabilities for a Woonsocket, Rhode Island man.

Marasco & Nesselbush attorneys for the Plaintiff, Joseph Marasco and Anthony Buglio presented a case of general premises negligence against the Defendant for its breach of the duty to exercise reasonable care for the safety of those people reasonably expected to be upon its premises.  In this case the accumulation of a liquid was allowed to exist upon the supermarket floor, no action had been taken to warn those people reasonably expected to be upon the premises, as well as no action had been taken to remedy the dangerous condition.  All of which could have been easily avoided had the supermarket staff exercised reasonable care and inspection of its premises.  As a result, the Plaintiff suffered severe life changing injuries to his lumbar spine. 

Injuries and medical treatment expected to be proven at trial through expert witnesses were a herniation of a lumbar intervertebral disc and lumbar radiculopathy which required a posterior lumbar discectomy and laminectomy at L3-4.   This procedure was unsuccessful and a year later the Plaintiff underwent a lumbar decompression and fusion from L3-L5.  Over the following year physical therapy was pursued, as well as multiple epidural steroid injections were needed for residual pain management. At one point, the cocktail of prescriptive pain medication and over the counter NSAIDs necessary to control pain and the radiculopathy put the Plaintiff into the hospital for a week with a bleeding stomach ulcer. 

At the time of settlement, the Plaintiff was participating in testing for the implantation of a spinal stimulator.  The Plaintiff’s treating medical expert opined the client had sustained 25% permanent impairment of spinal function and he had a reasonable life expectancy pursuant to the National Vital Statistics Reports / United States Life Tables of 24 years.