1st DCA Overturns Denial of Benefits for Murdered Manager

By Sherri OkamotoLegal ReporterA Florida appellate court on Monday overturned the denial of death benefits to the surviving family of a grocery store worker who was run over by the jealous boyfriend of one of his coworkers as he was gathering shopping carts in the store parking lot. Christopher Polanco was apprehended for the crime. He confessed that he had been planning the attack for several weeks and had knowledge that Melvin Pivaral-Ramirez collected shopping carts from the parking lot of the King's Food and Meat Bazaar in West Palm Beach each night. Polanco told police ...