Wal-Mart sued over incident with motorized cart machine

A woman is suing after a motorized shopping cart machine at an area Walmart pushed a line of carts into her.

Heidi Hollis filed a lawsuit Jan. 14 in the Cook County Circuit Court against Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

According to the complaint, Hollis was at the West Touhy Avenue Walmart in Niles on Feb. 24, 2012, when a motorized shopping cart machine near the entrance pushed a line of shopping carts into her, causing injury.

She accuses the defendant of failing to operate the motorized shopping cart machine in a safe manner.

Hollis is seeking more than $50,000 in damages and is being represented in the case by attorney David Nemeroff of Nemeroff Law Offices Ltd.

Cook County Circuit Court Case No. 2014L000377.

This is a report on a civil lawsuit filed in the Cook County Circuit Court. The details in this report come from an original complaint filed by a plaintiff. Please note, a complaint represents an accusation by a private individual, not the government. It is not an indication of guilt, and it only represents one side of the story.