by Alan Sackrin | Feb 13, 2024 | FAQs, Hotel Injuries
According to Florida law, a hotel may be held accountable if it fails to implement reasonable precautions to prevent or deter the type of criminal activity that resulted in a guest’s injury (bodily injuries): An innkeeper may be liable if he fails to take...
by Alan Sackrin | Feb 6, 2024 | FAQs, Hotel Injuries
According to Florida law, a hotel owner and/or operator is under a continuing legal obligation to use ordinary care to keep the premises in a reasonably safe condition. They must protect patrons from harm due to reasonably foreseeable risks of injury: A motel operator...
by Alan Sackrin | Jan 30, 2024 | FAQs, Hotel Injuries
According to Florida law, a hotel has a duty to use reasonable care to maintain the premises in a safe condition, warn of concealed perils known to the hotel and conduct inspections: As a registered guest, Yuniter was a business invitee of the motel. See Steinberg v....
by Alan Sackrin | Jan 23, 2024 | FAQs, Slip and Falls
According to Florida law, constructive knowledge is the inference of knowledge based on existing law or legal principles. For example, under Florida’s Premises Liability statute (768.0755), constructive knowledge, based on circumstantial evidence, infers that a...
by Alan Sackrin | Jan 16, 2024 | FAQs, Slip and Falls
According to Florida law, in transitory foreign substance cases, courts look to the length of time the condition existed before the accident occurred: In transitory foreign substance cases, courts look to the length of time the condition existed before the accident...
by Alan Sackrin | Jan 9, 2024 | Defamation, FAQs
According to Florida law, every repetition of a defamatory statement is considered a publication: Florida law establishes a two-year statute of limitations for actions for “libel and slander.” § 95.11(4)(g), Fla. Stat. (2014). The statute of limitations begins to run...
