context: Hackworth appears to suggest that she was blinded by bright lights of the Mini-Mart, and thus failed to see the puddle she claims existed. The court finds, however, that given Hack-worth's knowledge of the rainy conditions, the close attention Hackworth says she was paying to the floor, and the fact that a three-foot wide puddle could not be entirely obstructed by overhead lights, the Government had no duty to warn. This finding comports with the great majority of Federal Tort Claims Act cases involving slip and fall accidents on wet floors.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.parenthetical: rainwater that accumulated on post office floor was open and obvious hazard and patron injured in slip and fall could not recover under FTCA
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Holland v. United States, 918 F.Supp. 87, 89 (S.D.N.Y.1996) (“The cases essentially are uniform which have considered the United States’ liability under the FTCA in customers’ slip and fall cases arising from injuries suffered when slipping on wet post office floors during or after a rainstorm. Even in the case where no sign was posted, no mats or runners were provided, and recommended mopping procedures were not followed, the courts have repeatedly found that the Government did not breach a duty to postal customers because a proprietor’s duty to warn does not extend to obvious dangers.”); see also Gunter v. United States, 10 F.Supp.2d 534 (M.D.N.C.1998) (rainwater that accumulated on post office floor was open and obvious hazard and patron injured in slip and fall could not recover under FTCA); Faircloth v. United States, 837 F.Supp. 123, 128-30 (E.D.N.C.1993) (“Everybody knows that the hallways ... during a continued rainstorm are tracked all over by the wet feet of people coming from the wet sidewalks, and are thereby rendered more slippery than they otherwise would be.
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 918 F.Supp. 87, 89
citation_b.parenthetical: "The cases essentially are uniform which have considered the United States' liability under the FTCA in customers' slip and fall cases arising from injuries suffered when slipping on wet post office floors during or after a rainstorm. Even in the case where no sign was posted, no mats or runners were provided, and recommended mopping procedures were not followed, the courts have repeatedly found that the Government did not breach a duty to postal customers because a proprietor's duty to warn does not extend to obvious dangers."
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Holland v. United States, 918 F.Supp. 87, 89 (S.D.N.Y.1996) (“The cases essentially are uniform which have considered the United States’ liability under the FTCA in customers’ slip and fall cases arising from injuries suffered when slipping on wet post office floors during or after a rainstorm. Even in the case where no sign was posted, no mats or runners were provided, and recommended mopping procedures were not followed, the courts have repeatedly found that the Government did not breach a duty to postal customers because a proprietor’s duty to warn does not extend to obvious dangers.”); see also Gunter v. United States, 10 F.Supp.2d 534 (M.D.N.C.1998) (rainwater that accumulated on post office floor was open and obvious hazard and patron injured in slip and fall could not recover under FTCA); Faircloth v. United States, 837 F.Supp. 123, 128-30 (E.D.N.C.1993) (“Everybody knows that the hallways ... during a continued rainstorm are tracked all over by the wet feet of people coming from the wet sidewalks, and are thereby rendered more slippery than they otherwise would be.