A jury verdict in a slip-and-fall case that appeared to the plaintiffs to award only medical expenses and ignore pain and suffering was not what it seemed, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled in a case that raised a question about the mysterious nature of lump-sum verdicts similar to one the state Supreme Court recently tackled at oral arguments.

In Showers v. Sam’s East, a three-judge panel of the Superior Court affirmed a Chester County jury’s $7,481 verdict for a woman injured when she slipped on water in a Sam’s Club.