A Middletown Superior Court jury awarded $240,000 to a pedestrian who was injured by a driver who was backing out of a parking spot at a Portland Cumberland Farms.

The six-person jury found that Richard Pangretic Jr. was liable for the accident that injured 56-year-old East Hampton resident Paul Sirois. The jury, after deliberating 85 minutes on Jan. 17, awarded Sirois $150,000 in noneconomic damages, $52,000 in economic damages and $38,000 in lost wages. The incident occurred March 2016 and a lawsuit was filed the following August.

Chris Flood, Flood Law Firm.