My child was injured after slipping on spilled food at the grocery store. Can he recover damages for his injuries?

A customer at a grocery store is classified as an invitee under common law principles. The grocery store has a duty to use reasonable and ordinary care to keep the property reasonably safe for customers. The store has a duty to make reasonable inspections to discover dangerous conditions, such as spills, and to make them safe. The store's employees should routinely inspect areas the public uses to discover any potentially dangerous conditions. However, if the spilled food was so obvious and visible that your child should reasonably have seen it, the grocery store does not have a duty to warn. Under the "attractive display" doctrine, spilled food might not be considered obvious if a store's display distracts the child and he does not see the spill. ... more