Woman gets $258,000, Shopping Cart Wheels Jam

Connecticut - The Willimantic jury awarded the damages to Alice Mae Suits, a retired school social worker who was hospitalized as a result of the injuries she suffered when the wheels on a cart she was pushing stopped and the cart sheared off the front of her shins, said her lawyer. Suits, 78, suffered facial lacerations, leg lacerations and leg hematomas - a collection of pooled blood in a small area of the lower leg that required extensive surgery and skin grafting. She was 74 at the time. More