Florida hospitality premises liability
A hotel or resort injury may occur in a guest room, lobby, pool area, restaurant, parking facility, walkway, elevator, spa, beach-access area, or shuttle. Ownership, branding, management, maintenance, security, and food-service responsibilities may be divided among several companies.
Claims we evaluate
The legal analysis starts with how the injury actually happened.
What the case may require
A national brand may franchise the property while another company owns it and a third company manages daily operations. Restaurants, spas, security, parking, maintenance, and transportation may be separately operated.
The location and type of event determine which relationships matter. Public records, reservation documents, contracts, incident materials, and discovery may be needed to identify responsible parties.
Key-card data, work orders, housekeeping records, engineering logs, room-change requests, guest complaints, surveillance, security patrols, and incident records may provide a timeline that ordinary retail cases do not have.
Guests should preserve app messages, texts, photographs, folios, maintenance requests, and communications with the front desk.
A negligent-security claim is not established merely because a crime occurred. The investigation may examine prior incidents, access control, lighting, locks, staffing, patrols, warnings, and whether reasonable security measures would have affected the event.
Police reports, calls for service, property records, security contracts, video, and witness accounts may all be relevant.
Evidence to preserve
The strongest time to protect a case is often before the property changes.
Florida slip-and-fall law
Under section 768.0755, Florida Statutes, a person who slips on a transitory foreign substance in a business establishment generally must prove actual or constructive knowledge and that the business should have acted.
Constructive knowledge may be shown by circumstantial evidence that the condition existed long enough to be discovered through ordinary care or occurred with such regularity that it was foreseeable. Other types of property injuries may involve a different analysis.
Common questions
Preserve both. Platform messages and direct hotel communications can establish timing, notice, complaints, and the response.
Not automatically. Its placement, visibility, specificity, timing, and relationship to the actual hazard matter.
Sometimes, depending on control, agency, contracts, representations, nondelegable duties, and the facts. The answer cannot be assumed from branding alone.
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