Arkansas Jury Awards Walmart Supplier Over $100M In COVID Glove Deal Gone Bad

(April 22, 2024, 9:46 AM EDT) -- FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — An Arkansas federal jury awarded a home goods supplier $101,218,680 against a national retail chain in the supplier’s breach of contract action alleging that the retailer reneged on a promise to purchase millions of boxes of nitrile gloves during the COVID-19 pandemic, offset by the retailer’s successful claim of tortious conduct by the supplier in the amount of $350,000 involving one of the retailer’s employees who was a central figure in the glove deal....