Paraplegic Worker Can't Hold Vendor Liable for Warehouse Accident

The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that a worker’s catastrophic injuries were not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of a vendor’s presumed failure to secure its products to a pallet. Case: Cruz v. Spec Personnel LLC, No. AC 46515, 06/02/2026, published. Facts: Signify North America Corp. sells lighting products. In 2017, it sold a packaged load of lights weighing approximately 1,300 pounds to Rexel USA Inc., a wholesale electrical distributor. Signify loaded the lights and a pallet onto a tractor-trailer for shipment to Rexel’s warehouse in Hartford, Connecticut...