I fell in a store — do I have a case?

This surprises almost everyone. A store isn't automatically responsible because you fell on its floor.

What Florida requires. You must prove the business had actual or constructive knowledge of the dangerous condition and should have taken action.

Actual knowledge means someone at the business knew — an employee saw the spill, a customer reported it.

Constructive knowledge means they should have known, provable two ways: the condition was there long enough that a reasonably careful business would have found it, or the condition occurred with regularity and was therefore foreseeable.

That second route matters and it's underused. It doesn't require proving how long the spill sat. A recurring problem — a cooler that leaks, an entrance that floods when it rains, a produce aisle with regular drops — can establish knowledge without any timeline.

What isn't enough by itself: that a substance was on the floor, that you fell, and that you were injured.