A woman who says she was shopping at the downtown Portland Rite Aid when she slipped in a puddle of human urine has filed a $272,000 lawsuit against the drug store chain.

Karen Ruth Taylor's lawsuit states that after another customer urinated on the floor, staff placed yellow cones around some of the liquid. But they did a poor job of delineating the area during Taylor's shopping visit on Feb. 13, 2014, she claims.

"(T)he cones did not adequately identify the location of or the extent of the puddle of urine," states the lawsuit, filed last week in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

The suit also faults Rite Aid for failing to "promptly remove the puddle of urine from the Rite Aid store floor," according to the suit.

Rite Aid spokeswoman Ashley Flower declined to comment on the suit, saying the the chain doesn't talk about pending litigation. Rite Aid has more than 4,700 locations and is the third largest drug store chain in the nation.

Taylor is a Northeast Portland resident. She was 51 at the time of the incident at the store at 622 S.W. Alder St., just steps from Pioneer Courthouse Square.

The suit says Taylor has had more than $22,000 in medical bills. She suffered an injured wrist, thumb, jaw, neck and back -- and still suffers from jaw pain, headaches, vertigo and an inability to concentrate as a result of the fall, the suit states.

She also seeks up to $250,000 for pain and suffering.

Portland attorney Jess Glaeser is representing Taylor.

Read the lawsuit here.

-- Aimee Green

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