Florida Statute 768.093 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 768
NEGLIGENCE

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768.093 Owner liability limits; powered shopping carts.—

(1) For the purposes of this section, the term “powered shopping cart” means an electrically powered assistive technology device which is generally used in a retail establishment by a customer, designed for the simultaneous transport of a person and of goods of any kind, and capable of speeds no greater than 21/2 miles per hour.

(2) A powered shopping cart which is provided to a person gratuitously for use solely on the premises of the owner of such powered shopping cart shall not be considered a dangerous instrumentality in this state.

History.—s. 1, ch. 2002-33.

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Cases Citing Statute 768.093

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Weissberg v. Albertson's Inc., 886 So. 2d 305 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2004 WL 2534243

...Florida's dangerous instrumentality doctrine is a means by which to hold the owner of a motor vehicle vicariously liable for the negligence of the individual to whom the owner entrusted the vehicle. See Toombs v. Alamo Rent-A-Car, Inc., 833 So.2d 109, 110 n. 2 (Fla.2002). Moreover, as Albertson's has pointed out, section 768.093(2), Florida Statutes (2002), provides that a powered shopping cart is not, under certain defined circumstances, a dangerous instrumentality....

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Arthur Sager v. Madalina Blanco & Ricardo F. Blanco (Fla. 3d DCA 2022).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...R.S. Evans, Jacksonville, Inc., 81 So. 2d 635, 637 (Fla. 1955). The Florida Legislature has further diminished the reach of the doctrine by declaring that a powered shopping cart in a retail establishment is not a dangerous instrumentality, § 768.093(2), Fla....

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Arthur Sager v. Madalina Blanco & Ricardo F. Blanco (Fla. 3d DCA 2022).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...2d 635, 637 (Fla. 1955). The Florida Legislature has further diminished the reach of the doctrine by declaring that a powered shopping cart in a retail establishment is not a 6 dangerous instrumentality, § 768.093(2), Fla....

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