BOCA RATON, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2025) — A Palm Beach County resident has filed a negligence lawsuit against Target Corporation, alleging she was injured in a fall at a Target property in West Boca Raton and blaming the incident on what the complaint describes as a negligently designed and maintained curb.

The case is Joy Sirmeyer v. Target Corporation, Case No. 502025CA013075XXXAMB, filed in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida. The complaint was electronically filed on December 16, 2025, according to the court filing stamp.

In the complaint, the plaintiff, Joy Sirmeyer, alleges that Target Corporation was doing business in Palm Beach County and “owned, maintained, managed, and/or controlled” property located at or near 21637 State Road 7, Boca Raton, Florida 33428. The filing states the incident occurred on or about April 11, 2024.

Sirmeyer alleges she was lawfully on the property and “while exercising due care and caution for her own safety,” she was injured due to Target’s negligence. The complaint points to a specific condition in the parking lot: it alleges she “was caused to fall due to a negligently designed and maintained curb” in Target’s parking lot.

The lawsuit claims Target owed a duty of reasonable care to maintain the property “in a condition reasonably safe for its intended use,” and free from conditions that would render it dangerous or create an unreasonable risk of harm to lawful visitors. It also alleges Target had a duty to warn of the claimed dangerous condition.

The complaint lists several alleged failures, including claims that Target failed to properly design, maintain, inspect, and examine the property; failed to exercise reasonable care in maintaining the site; and failed to warn the plaintiff of the dangerous condition. It further alleges the condition was “a regular, reoccurring, and ongoing condition,” and that Target “knew, or in the exercise of reasonable care, should have known” about the alleged hazard.

Sirmeyer seeks damages “in excess of fifty thousand ($50,000.00)” and requests a jury trial “as to all issues so triable as a matter of right,” the filing states.

As to damages, the complaint alleges the plaintiff incurred medical bills and suffered bodily injury resulting in “severe physical pain and suffering,” as well as additional claimed harms including disability, disfigurement, mental anguish, loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life, and other related losses. The complaint also alleges potential aggravation of preexisting injuries, if any, along with lost wages and loss of earning capacity, and contends the losses are permanent and continuing.

The plaintiff is represented by Englander Peebles, based in Fort Lauderdale, with Daniel Drazen, Esq. signing the complaint. The filing does not list defense counsel.

Source: The original document, as filed with the Palm Beach County Clerk of Court, can be viewed here.

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