FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2025 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — An Alabama woman visiting the popular Marriott Harbor Beach Resort — which overlooks the ocean in Fort Lauderdale — is suing Marriott after she claims she was critically injured in her hotel room. Erica Martin says she entered her room shortly after housekeeping was inside, only to slip and fall on a substance that housekeeping left behind.
BocaNewsNow.com obtained the complaint just filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The key accusations and fact allegations are below:
>> On or about October 10, 2024, Plaintiff, ERICA MARTIN, was visiting the Defendant, MARRIOTT HARBOR BEACH RESORT & SPA’s, hotel as a patron. As such, Plaintiff, ERICA MARTIN, was a lawfully present business invitee on the premises located at 3030 Holiday Dr, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316. At all times material hereto, this premises was at that time, and continues to be, owned, operated, and maintained by the Defendant, MARRIOTT HARBOR BEACH RESORT & SPA.
On the above date, Plaintiff, ERICA MARTIN, was in her room shortly after hotel cleaning staff were inside the room. At said time and place, Plaintiff was a business invitee, lawfully upon the premises of the Defendant, who owed Plaintiff a non-delegable duty to exercise reasonable care for his safety. At all times material hereto, Defendant had actual knowledge of the liquid on the floor of the hotel room floor after cleaning. Alternatively, the liquid on the floor of the hotel after cleaning existed for such a length of time that, in the exercise of reasonable care, Defendant should have known about it; or the liquid was on the floor of the hotel room with regularity and was therefore foreseeable.
As a result, while Plaintiff was visiting business, she slipped and fell on a liquid substance on the floor of her hotel room approaching the balcony shortly after hotel cleaning crew was in the room, sustaining significant personal injuries. As a direct and proximate result of the negligence of Defendant, Plaintiff suffered bodily injury in and about Plaintiff’s body and extremities, resulting in pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, permanent and significant scarring, mental anguish, loss of the capacity for the enjoyment of life, expense of hospitalization, medical and nursing care and treatment, loss of earning, loss of the ability to earn money, and aggravation of a previously existing condition. The losses are either permanent or continuing and Plaintiff will suffer these losses in the future. <<
The suit seeks in excess of $50,000 which is the statutory minimum for filing a complaint in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Marriott has not responded to the suit as of Friday morning. Erica Martin is represented by Attorney Michael Pipitone of Morgan and Morgan in Plantation.
