The new law places the burden of proof on the plaintiff; victims will be required to prove a business knew or should have known a dangerous condition had existed for a sufficient time to have it fixed or removed, or that it was a foreseeable hazard.
It will undo a 2001 Florida Supreme Court ruling that removed a similar requirement from state law. That decision came in the case of a woman who slipped and fell in a Publix grocery store on a piece of a banana.
