Jury Sides With Petco After Kid's Rodent Related Passing
CBS partner KFMB-television reports that on Thursday the
jury discovered Petco was not careless or obligated in the passing of Aidan
Pankey on June 12, 2013, after he was hurried to a clinic with extreme stomach
torments.
The San Diego Province restorative analyst's office
controlled the reason for death was streptobacillus moniliformis contamination,
known as rodent chomp fever, after introduction to a tainted rodent. Andrew
Pankey, the kid's dad, then recorded a claim against Petco looking for $20
million in harms.
Pankey's lawyer, John H. Gomez, said in shutting contentions
Tuesday that Petco knows the rats it offers are probably going to convey
"rodent nibble fever'' and covers this data on a friend creature card,
KFMB revealed. Gomez said there was no real way to foresee if a shopper would
get a contaminated rodent from Petco.
The jury on Thursday found that Petco did what's necessary
to caution the kid's group of the conceivable dangers and threats of owning a
pet rodent, and in this manner was not careless in the kid's passing.