Jane is shopping in the supermarket. She turns the corner of the aisle and slips on some milk that has been spilled on the floor by a customer. A customer had reported the spill to an employee five minutes earlier, but the manager had decided he needed all his staff on the checkout lines and hadn’t gotten around to assigning anyone to clean it up before Jane fell. Can Jane recover her medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering costs from the supermarket?
Jane can recover her medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering costs from the supermarket because the supermarket has shown negligence in ensuring the safety of the customers and other people who visit the supermarket. The supermarket has the duty to keep the premises clean and safe and avoid injuries for the people who enter the store due to dangerous conditions like wet or greasy floors due to spills. A customer has already reported the spill of milk to an employee in the store and it is the manager’s decision to clean the same at a later time as he required all the employees on the checkout lines. The injury occurred as the manager breached his duty of care towards the customers and the injury was foreseeable to the manager. Hence the negligence of the manager can be proved here and an employer is liable for the negligence of its employee. Hence the supermarket is liable for the injuries of Jane happened by keeping the floor in a dangerous condition.
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