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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
November 24, 2009

Customer Awarded for Exposure to Blood at Checkout

In Kulik v. Acme Markets Inc., 172471, Burlington County Superior Court, NJ 03-03-2009, a jury awarded $51,500 to a supermarket patron who licked another customer's blood that got on his fingers after he touched a checkout counter. Lester Kulik was at a self-checkout counter in an Acme supermarket when he noticed blood on his finger. He put his finger in his mouth, thinking that he cut himself. However, employees alerted him that the previous customer at the checkout counter had been bleeding profusely and was escorted out of the store by an employee. Kulik claimed emotional distress for the subsequent six-month wait to receive test results for HIV and hepatitis, which were negative. He was willing to settle for $10,000, but the supermarket only offered $6,000. The jury's award included $1,500 for testing costs.

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