Panel Punishes Pub for Poisoning Patron
William Plyler | October 7, 2009
A panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, in Everhart v. O’Charley’s Inc. (COA08-1454, filed October 6, 2009), affirmed a $250,000 punitive damage award against a Winston-Salem restaurant whose waiter mistakenly filled a customer’s water glass with Auto-Chlor, a cleaning solution. The customer of O’Charley’s restaurant at Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem swallowed some of [...]