{"id":48342,"date":"2021-04-16T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48342"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:32:20","slug":"jury-awards-lee-county-man-more-than-350k-after-falling-in-dollar-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/04\/jury-awards-lee-county-man-more-than-350k-after-falling-in-dollar-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury awards Lee County man more than $350K after falling in Dollar General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DollarGeneral.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19864\" width=\"277\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DollarGeneral.jpg 304w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DollarGeneral-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A jury ruled Thursday that a Lehigh Acres Dollar General owes a Lee County&nbsp;man more than $350,000 after he sustained permanent injuries when he slipped and fell in the store in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jury found that the store was negligent in causing Lindsey Fredrick, 59, to fall and awarded him $351,434, according to a Morgan &amp; Morgan news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Dec. 24, 2014, Fredrick was shopping at&nbsp;Dollar General, 701 Gretchen Avenue South,&nbsp;when he slipped and fell on laundry detergent. He required knee replacement surgery and extensive therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fredrick, who was a City of Fort Myers Parks Department supervisor of landscape and tree trimming, also claimed lost wages and he did not return to work after surgery, according to court documents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fredrick was offered $100,000 for his injury before they went to trial, the news release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dollar General denied Fredrick&#8217;s claim and denied liability for his injury arguing that the injury was a result of a pre-existing condition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jury found the store was 95% at fault, the release states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cIt is clear that the jury found that Mr. Fredrick\u2019s injuries were wholly preventable had only Dollar General adequately maintained the safety of its store floors,\u201d&nbsp;said Fredrick\u2019s attorneys Derrick Isaac and Jason Gelinas&nbsp;in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jury ruled Thursday that a Lehigh Acres Dollar General owes a Lee County&nbsp;man more than $350,000 after he sustained permanent injuries when he slipped and fell in the store&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}