LAKE PARK, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2025) — A Palm Beach County woman has filed a civil lawsuit against Walmart Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores East, LP, alleging she was injured in a trip-and-fall incident in a store parking lot in Lake Park.

The case, Teresa Lynn Marroquin v. Walmart Inc., et al., Case No. 50-2025-CA-013099-XXX-AMB, was filed December 17, 2025, in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County. It is assigned to Division AE.

According to the complaint, Teresa Lynn Marroquin is a Palm Beach County resident. Walmart Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores East, LP are identified as foreign profit corporations with principal places of business in Arkansas, doing business in Palm Beach County.

The lawsuit centers on an incident alleged to have occurred on or about December 20, 2023, at the Walmart store located at 101 N. Congress Avenue in Lake Park. A familiar stretch of Congress, busy most hours of the day. The complaint alleges that both Walmart entities owned, managed, controlled, operated, or maintained the premises at that location.

Marroquin claims she was on the property as a business invitee, shopping at the store, when she tripped and fell in a hole in the asphalt of the parking lot. The complaint describes the hole as a dangerous condition.

The lawsuit lays out four counts in total. Two are brought against Walmart Inc., and two against Wal-Mart Stores East, LP. Each defendant is accused of negligent maintenance and negligent failure to warn.

In the negligent maintenance claims, Marroquin alleges the defendants owed a duty to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition, including keeping the parking lot free from holes in the asphalt. The complaint alleges that duty was breached by allowing the condition to exist. It further claims the defendants had actual notice of the hole before the incident, or in the alternative, constructive notice, and failed to fix it.

The complaint alleges the condition existed for a sufficient length of time that, through the exercise of ordinary care, the defendants should have known about it and taken action. It also alleges the condition occurred with regularity and was therefore foreseeable.

Separate counts allege negligent failure to warn. In those sections, the complaint characterizes the hole as a latent dangerous condition and states Marroquin was unaware of it at the time of the fall. The lawsuit alleges the defendants had superior knowledge of the condition and failed to provide adequate warning.

That includes failing to place barricades, signs, or other markings to alert customers to the condition of the parking lot. No cones, no tape. Nothing, according to the allegations.

As a result of the alleged fall, Marroquin claims she suffered bodily injury along with pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, mental anguish, and loss of enjoyment of life. The complaint also lists medical care and treatment expenses, loss of earnings, loss of future earning capacity, and aggravation of a pre-existing condition. The filing states some of these losses are permanent or continuing in nature.

The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $50,000, along with costs, and asks for any further relief the court deems appropriate. A jury trial is demanded on all issues so triable as a matter of right.

Marroquin is represented by the law firm Ramon, Rodriguez & Blanco-Herrera. Ramon Blanco-Herrera, Esq., is listed as counsel of record. As of filing, the defendants had not yet responded to the allegations.

All claims outlined in the complaint are allegations and have not been proven in court.

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

What “premises liability” usually means in court filings is explained here.