Tampa premises owners, whether the owners of popular vacation attractions or the owners of smaller establishments like restaurants and stores, bear a high duty of care to visitors to those properties. They must ensure that they provide a safe environment: one free of common fall hazards, items that could drop down on the head of an unsuspecting victim, or potential fire hazards that could pose a serious danger.
Business owners must take basic steps to ensure the safety of their guests, including conducting regular maintenance on the property and checking frequently for potential hazards. Furthermore, they must offer warnings about potentially unsafe areas of the property, including slip and fall hazards like spills or water tracked in on the floor on one of Tampa’s rainy summer afternoons.
A premises owner that fails to take those vital precautions, resulting in serious injury to others on the property, may bear liability for those injuries.