She won this jury award in bulk.
A pain-wracked mom scored a stunning $9.9 million verdict last week after she was smacked with an out-of-control shopping cart at a Costco outlet in Brooklyn that left her forced to hobble on a cane, The Post has learned.
“Suddenly, something caught my attention and when I looked towards the shopping cart, I saw that it was coming towards me quickly,” said Rose Nudelman, 52, in Brooklyn federal-court papers. “The shopping cart struck me with force.”
The photographer and multimedia artist — who got married just two months before the freak accident — was at the store with her husband in 2009 when she was nailed with her own loaded cart while riding up an escalator, according to court documents.
The perennially packed outlet’s ascending escalators have a mechanism that locks carts into place so that shoppers don’t have to hold them as they ascend.
But Nudelman said her packed cart suddenly became dislodged and fell back into her wrist, according to her court testimony.
Not sensing any major injury, Nudelman filed a report with Costco staffers after the incident and then left the store, according to her attorney, Michael Ronemus.
But she soon began to suffer from a rare neurological condition called complex regional pain syndrome that eventually robbed her of her mobility and eventually forced her to use a cane, according to court papers.
Ronemus showed emotional jurors video footage of Nudelman pracing around at her wedding and then hobbling on a cane after the nightmarish incident. “I am no longer able to pursue my avocation as a multimedia artist,” Nudelman said in court papers.
Costco’s attorneys claimed that she likely suffered some form of injury from the cart collision but was exaggerating the severity in order to cash in on a settlement.
But a jury found Nudelman’s claims believable last week and walloped the retail juggernaut with a $9,903,825 award to cover medical costs as well as her pain and suffering.
Costco attorneys will appeal the massive award. They did not return a call for comment.
“There is no one you or I know who would change places with Ms Nudelman for any amount of money,” Ronemus said.
Nudelman and her husband have since moved to North Carolina, Ronemus said.