A girl who fractured her left ankle throughout a visit along with her husband to the Italian meals emporium Eataly in Boston final yr is blaming her harm on a chunk of ham.
Alice Cohen was heading to an space the place meals samples are distributed to prospects on Oct. 7 when she slipped on a chunk of prosciutto and fell, based on a lawsuit filed Friday in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston.
“Alice Cohen sustained bodily injuries, a loss of enjoyment of life, pain and suffering, and incurred necessary medical expenses for medical care and attention,” the lawsuit says.
Her medical bills, together with a hospital go to and bodily remedy, have resulted in additional than $7,500 in payments, based on court docket papers.
Cohen and her husband Ronald, of Gilford, New Hampshire, are looking for a jury trial and a minimum of $50,000 in damages.
The lawsuit claims Eataly was negligent for not correctly cleansing the ground. The lawsuit additionally claims lack of consortium.
The restaurant “had a duty to ensure that the surface of the floors were free from unnecessary dangers, a duty to use ordinary care to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition and a duty to warn of such dangerous conditions,” the lawsuit says.
Eataly is a connoisseur Italian restaurant and meals market with eight areas within the U.S. and eight abroad, based on the corporate’s web site. Prosciutto is a kind of thinly sliced, cured ham that originated in Italy.
An e mail looking for remark was left with Eataly’s company headquarters.
Voicemails looking for remark had been left with the Cohens and their lawyer.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”