If you have a slip and fall injury in Florida, it’s important for you to understand the difference between actual and constructive notice and how it applies in a personal injury case. The Florida Legislature has codified the notice requirement for the property owner or operator. According to Florida Statute, 768.0755, “if a person slips and falls on a transitory foreign substance in a business establishment, the injured person must prove that the business establishment had actual or constructive knowledge of the dangerous condition and should have taken action to remedy it.” Actual Notice is quite simple – it means that the business establishment literally knew of the dangerous condition. Most slip-and-fall cases are based on constructive notice, as actual notice can be quite difficult to prove. In a Florida slip and fall case, constructive notice may be shown by a dangerous condition that existed for such a length of time that in the exercise of reasonable care the condition would have been known to the owner of the property or a condition that occurred with regularity and was therefore foreseeable.