‘Not Liable’: Walmart Blames ‘Inattentive’ 9-Year-Old Boy Who Later Died After In-Store Accident with Metal Cart, Leading to Years-Long Seizures; Judge Will Allow Civil Suit to Proceed

A Florida family is suing Walmart over the death of a 9-year-old boy whose life-altering injury occurred at their local megastore. The family of 9-year-old Saiy’Yah Allen took the retail giant to civil court, alleging that the store created a dangerous and unsafe condition that led to a serious head injury the boy sustained on Nov. 25, 2020 at a Walmart location in Fort Lauderdale. The family of nine-year-old Saiy’Yah Allen alleged in a federal lawsuit against Walmart that the retail giant is responsible for a permanent injury the boy sustained at a Fort Lauderdale store. (Photo: WTVJ Screenshot) In their lawsuit filed in 2022, family members said that Allen hit his head after walking into a metal stock cart, which is a wheeled trolly with multiple shelves used by warehouse or retail staff to replenish store inventory, that was left in the middle of the store’s walkway. Allen’s mother, Tamika Springer, alleged in the complaint that the accident left her then-7-year-old son with a permanent injury that caused extreme pain and mental anguish and required medical care and attention. However, Walmart’s attorneys are challenging Springer’s negligence claims, asserting that Allen was “inattentive” and was not looking where he was...