A woman has filed a lawsuit against a major fast-food corporation, alleging negligence that led to her injury. Patricia Sauls filed the complaint in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, in and for Palm Beach County, on August 27, 2024, against McDonald’s Corporation.

According to the court documents, Patricia Sauls was a business invitee at a McDonald’s restaurant located at 6858 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL on April 30, 2024. While exercising due care and caution for her own safety, she slipped and fell on water in the restroom stall. This incident caused her to hit the ground hard and sustain bodily injuries. The plaintiff asserts that McDonald’s Corporation owned, maintained, and controlled the premises where she fell.

The lawsuit accuses McDonald’s Corporation of multiple counts of negligence. Sauls claims that the corporation had a non-delegable duty to use reasonable care to maintain and inspect its property to ensure it was safe for pedestrians using its restrooms. She alleges that McDonald’s failed in various ways including not maintaining the property in a reasonably safe condition, failing to exercise reasonable care in cleaning and maintaining the restrooms, not warning patrons about hazardous conditions like pooled water on the floor, and failing to correct known dangerous conditions.