Dollar General Faces New Personal Injury Lawsuit in Talbot County, Georgia

A lawsuit filed two days ago in Georgia Superior Court accuses Dollar General Corporation of negligence after a customer allegedly slipped on a liquid substance inside a DG Market in Citra, Florida, sustaining what the complaint describes as "significant personal injuries."

The case, Powell v. Dollar General Corporation (No. 2026-CV-025), was filed March 9, 2026 in Talbot County, Georgia. According to the complaint, a person identified as T was walking through the DG Market at 17520 N. U.S. Highway 301 in Citra on January 6, 2025, when she "slipped and fell on a liquid substance on the floor." DG Markets are a Dollar General store variant that carry fresh produce and a broader grocery selection than the chain's standard format.

The filing arrives more than 14 months after the alleged incident, which raises at least two questions the complaint itself may answer once it is reviewed in full. The court filing has been characterized in docket records as both a personal-injury and an automobile-tort claim involving motor vehicle negligence, a classification that appears to conflict with the slip-and-fall factual narrative described in the complaint. The complaint also presents a jurisdictional wrinkle: Citra sits in Marion County, Florida, yet the case was filed in Talbot County, Georgia. The basis for Georgia venue, whether tied to the plaintiff's residence, the defendant's corporate contacts, or some additional claim not yet visible in available excerpts, is not stated in the portions of the filing currently available.

No damages figure is specified in the available complaint language, and Dollar General has not yet filed a public response to the suit.

The case lands against a backdrop of mounting slip-and-fall litigation against the chain. In Marion County, Florida alone, Morgan & Morgan filed a separate suit against Dolgencorp, LLC, Dollar General's operating subsidiary, on August 11, marking what was described at the time as the fourth such filing against a Marion County Dollar General location within two months. Alabama juries have delivered sizable verdicts in similar cases: a Mobile County jury awarded $1.725 million to a woman who fell in liquid laundry detergent in the aisle of a Dollar General store, an incident from July 2012 that left her with leg and shoulder fractures requiring eight surgeries and 395 doctor visits totaling more than $470,000 in medical bills. She was 60 at the time of the fall and is described in court documents as permanently disabled. A Lauderdale County, Alabama jury separately returned a $925,000 verdict, described at the time as the largest in that county's history, in a case stemming from a 2013 incident involving a delivery truck driver from Kentucky.

Powell v. Dollar General Corporation is in its earliest procedural stage. Whether counsel has been identified on either side, whether a summons has been served, and what specific causes of action are formally pleaded remain to be confirmed through the Talbot County court docket.