A woman who fractured her left ankle all through a go to alongside along with her husband to the Italian meals emporium Eataly in Boston remaining yr is blaming her hurt on a bit of ham.
Alice Cohen was heading to an house the place meals samples are distributed to prospects on Oct. 7 when she slipped on a bit of prosciutto and fell, primarily based on a lawsuit filed Friday in Suffolk Superior Courtroom in Boston.
“Alice Cohen sustained bodily accidents, a lack of enjoyment of life, ache and struggling, and incurred needed medical bills for medical care and a spotlight,” the lawsuit says.
Her medical payments, along with a hospital go to and bodily treatment, have resulted in extra than $7,500 in funds, primarily based on courtroom docket papers.
Cohen and her husband Ronald, of Gilford, New Hampshire, are in search of a jury trial and a minimal of $50,000 in damages.
The lawsuit claims Eataly was negligent for not accurately cleaning the bottom. The lawsuit moreover claims lack of consortium.
The restaurant “had an obligation to make sure that the floor of the flooring have been free from pointless risks, an obligation to make use of atypical care to keep up the premises in a fairly protected situation and an obligation to warn of such harmful circumstances,” the lawsuit says.
Eataly is a connoisseur Italian restaurant and meals market with eight areas throughout the U.S. and eight overseas, primarily based on the company’s web page. Prosciutto is a type of thinly sliced, cured ham that originated in Italy.
An e mail in search of comment was left with Eataly’s firm headquarters.
Voicemails in search of comment had been left with the Cohens and their lawyer.
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