Millman, the plaintiff below, won a jury verdict of $50,000 in damages — reduced by fifty per cent comparative negligence— against a Key West Howard Johnson’s motel. The claim was based upon the appel-lee’s negligence1 in failing to protect Mill-man, a jewelry salesman who was a guest at the hotel, from an armed robber who broke into his locked room, held him up at gun point, bound and gagged him, and then escaped with all his property. After the trial, the lower court reduced the verdict and judgment to $500 pursuant to section 509.111(1), Florida Statutes (1983),2 on the ground that the statutory prerequisites for the recovery of more than $1,000 (less $500 representing fifty per cent comparative negligence3) had not been satisfied. This ruling was erroneous.

Even to the extent that it applies, section 509.111(1) limits an innkeeper’s liability only as to the value of personal property which is stolen from or lost by a hotel guest. It clearly has no effect upon the damages recoverable for mental pain and suffering, anguish, humiliation, and other personal injury which are appropriate elements of damages in a case such as this, 4 Fla.Jur.2d Assault — Civil Aspects § 18 (1978); 24 Fla.Jur.2d False Imprisonment § 10 (1981), which Millman specifically pled and concerning which he testified and the jury was instructed. Since the record concerning the plaintiff’s personal damages fully supports the difference between the $1,000 in awardable property loss and the $50,000 award, the judgment under review is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to enter a judgment in Millman’s favor for $25,000 in accordance with the jury verdict.

AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART.