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SLIP-AND-FALL ACCIDENTS

Slip and fall accidents are a subcategory of premises liability law.  Generally, for the property owner to have liability, the property owner is required to have had notice (either because the property owner or its employees created the condition, or actually knew of the condition in time to provide a remedy or warning, or else the dangerous condition existed for a sufficient length of time that the property owner or its employees should have known, in the exercise of reasonable care, about the dangerous condition).

Even if the property has no notice of the unreasonably dangerous condition that caused injury, the property owner could still be determined to be negligent if:

1. The property owner had adopted a method of operation from which it could reasonably be anticipated that unreasonably dangerous conditions would regularly arise;

2. The property owner or its employees fail to exercise reasonable care to prevent harm under those circumstances.

An example would be a produce store that fails to clean up produce that falls on the floor, creating slippery conditions, and does so regularly as part of its method of operation.