Supermarket group Asda yesterday agreed to pay £550,000 compensation to a woman who slipped on a mushroom at one of its stores.
Asda Stores admitted liability for the accident which shopper Beverley Jackson, 44, said had left her wheelchair-bound after a hip operation failed.
A trial to agree damages was abandoned when Asda agreed to settle the claim and pay Mrs Jackson's legal expenses.
Mrs Jackson, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, had to give up work in 1998 because of increasing pain in her right hip after a fall at her local Asda in 1997.
Asda had taken the case to the Court of Appeal in a bid to show her hip problems would have occurred without the accident.
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