The story, as Farm Bureau tells it, starts on January 16, 2023, at a Wal-Mart Superstore in Amite, Louisiana. A shipment of plants from Farm Bureau’s insured, Neal Mast and Son Greenhouses, was being unloaded when a rack allegedly fell on a man named Jeffrey Lewis. The hi/lo – a forklift – was being operated by a Wal-Mart employee, Brian Matherne. Lewis sued Wal-Mart, the greenhouse, Matherne, and Peak Transportation.
