The year before plaintiff Charlisa Herriott sued a Ross Dess for Less store in a slip-and-fall action, her doctors told her she had exhausted her cancer treatment options and to begin settling her affairs. Six years later, a Gwinnett County jury awarded her $5.2 million.
Herriott was shopping at a Ross store after a chemotherapy appointment in late 2017 when she slipped and fell on a slippery substance on the floor. While under normal circumstances her injuries would have been treatable, because she’d already had a lung removed due to a cancer tumor, she wasn’t able to get the procedure she needed.
