Simon Properties Also Named After Alleged Critical Injury…
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2025 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Joseph’s Classic Market and Boca Raton Town Center Mall are facing a lawsuit from a man who says he was critically injured in the Joseph’s parking lot back in 2023. The suit seeks in excess of $50,000 — the statutory minimum for filing in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.
According to the complaint obtained by BocaNewsNow.com, Robert Gordon was “walking when he tripped over the edge of an abnormally uneven exterior tile paver that was located at or near a handicapped parking space near the front entrance of door of Joseph’s Classic Market.”
Gordon fell and sustained critical injuries. According to the suit: “ROBERT GORDON suffered bodily injury and resulting pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, impairment of working ability, mental anguish, loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life, expense of hospitalization, medical and nursing care and treatment, loss of earnings, loss of the ability to earn money in the future, aggravation of a previously existing condition, and Plaintiff has incurred medical expenses in the care and treatment of said injuries. The losses are either permanent or continuing in nature and Plaintiff, ROBERT GORDON, will suffer said losses in the future.”
The suit accuses Boca Food, which is the operating name for Joseph’s Classic Market, and Simon Properties which manages Boca Raton Town Center Mall, with these counts of negligence: “creating the condition which caused the Plaintiff”s injury; failing to maintain its premises/property in a reasonably safe condition; allowing the dangerous condition to be on the property and/or to remain on the property for an unreasonable length of time, creating a hazard for invitees such as Plaintiff. The dangerous condition that caused the Plaintiff to get injured had been on the property long enough that the Defendant knew, or under the exercise of reasonable care should have known, that the dangerous condition existed and should be promptly addressed and warning signs put out and this section of the property cordoned off until the condition was corrected. Nevertheless, Defendant did not take any of these steps and as a result Plaintiff sustained injuries and related damages; failing to level its tile pavers to ensure that they do not become a tripping hazard for its guests and invitees; and/or failing to otherwise exercise due care with respect to the matter alleged in the Complaint.”
Neither Simon Properties nor Boca Food (Joseph’s) had responded to the suit as of mid-day Saturday, March 15, 2025.
