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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Would appreciate comments on the following question:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A commercial property owner (hotel/spa) leases the entire premises to a tenant under a triple net lease. A visitor slips and falls (invitee of the tenant). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is there some sort of seminal case in FL that holds that where the landlord gives up control of the premises and has no maintenance or repair obligations, and the lease expressly places those obligations in the tenant’s hands, the landlord has no liability for the slip and fall?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=550 style='width:412.5pt'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=115 height=162 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE82FA.8A490840" alt="http://www.shutts.com/shutts100.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Neil B. 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