Hotel Attack and Assault Lawsuits
Hotel security guards must remain vigilant and monitor incoming guests. This prevents hotel attacks and sexual assaults.
Hotel Criminal Attacks
Hotel attacks are on the rise. Statistics confirm that crime associated with hotel guests and trespassers is on a sharp increase since 2000. Opportunistic criminals attacking inn guests has existed since the days of the feared highway robbers. However, in modern times, hotels are able to provide ample security measures which are relatively inexpensive. Proper hotel security can prevent and deter violent criminal attacks on guests such as rape, robbery, sexual assaults, and batteries. Violent hotel crimes occur inside the hotel property, in the hotel parking lot, and inside of hotel guests private rooms. The Motel 6 franchise agreed to pay upwards of $10 million in a negligent security hotel settlement for an injured plaintiff who was attacked and raped at one of the franchise’s locations in Texas. Because they deal with such catastrophic damages, hotel assault lawsuits can be valued upwards of $1 million. For more information, or a free hotel attack case evaluation, call us at 888.375.9998.
Hotel Security
Indicators of an unsecured hotel include:
lack of adequate lighting
high-frequency of prostitution in the hotel/motel
A highly transient population that is able to congregate in the parking lot without hotel intervention
a lack of security cameras on the property
A lack of on-site security guards patrolling the premises
Inattentive hotel clerks that do not check incoming visitors to confirm that they are not trespassing and posing a threat to the hotel guests.
Hotel Crime Statistics: A Sobering Reality
Studies confirm that more serious crimes such as rapes and murders occur more frequently at low-cost motels versus high-end hotels. This may be explained, in part, because the higher end hotels typically have adequate security in place to prevent hotel assaults. The chairman of the lodging committee for the American Society for Industrial Security, Phillip Sunstrom says "economy properties have a high client and employee turnover rate. You get what you pay for. And a $29.99 you're not buying a lot of security.” Despite the fact that security levels vary at budget versus luxury hotels, both kinds of hotel owners can be held accountable in a civil hotel assault lawsuit for failing to provide proper onsite security.
The Traveling Female Hotel Guest
Women now make up half of all solo business traveler hotel guests. Hotels must maintain security for their female guests to avoid hotel security lawsuits.
In the early 1960s all the way up to the 1980s, less than 1% of all hotel guests who were traveling for business were female residents. Now almost half of America's business traveling community is female. Unfortunately, hotel crimes and hotel assaults are disproportionately aimed at female guests. Hotel security experts agree that, even if it's a large hotel with a convention hall and banquet rooms, every single entrance and exit to the property must be monitored by hotel security. This allows the hotel to know who is on their property and why they're there. This kind of entrance/exit monitoring prevents bad people from remaining on the hotel premises.
Standard Hotel Security Door Locks
As one can expect, the lock on the hotel door should be able to prevent just about anybody from entering the room without a key to the hotel room. In fact, all Sleep Inn rooms, a national budget chain motel, now come equipped with 180° privacy viewing door peephole, each door in the motel is equipped with a 1 inch deadbolt, and the actual motel guest room doors are made of a solid core tamper proof magnetic keyless room entry system which prevents trespassers and rapists from breaking down the door and entering a motel guest room.
Injured or Assaulted in a Motel or Hotel room?
Here's What You Should Do
Hotel Security Video. Explains proper hotel security in order to avoid hotel assault lawsuits.
If you've been hurt, injured, sexually assaulted, or worse in a hotel or motel, you owe it to yourself to investigate a potential hotel assault negligent security lawsuit. In order to pursue a negligent security hotel lawsuit you will likely need the assistance of a negligent security attorney. As negligent security lawyers with past experience handling hotel assault lawsuits, we are familiar with the pitfalls that commonly occur in these hotel civil litigation cases. Typically, in a hotel inadequate security case, we begin by investigating the crime itself. How did this happen? How did the attacker get onto the hotel property without being stopped or noticed by hotel staff? Was this crime foreseeable? Could the crime have been prevented if the hotel or motel had adequate security? What kind of lighting and fencing is on the hotel property? How does the hotel screen incoming visitors? What kind of locks are on the hotel guest room doors? Was the attacker complicit with a hotel employee? Was this an inside job? Are there really hotel security guards there, or these just maintenance men?
Answering these questions will allow your negligent security attorney to properly evaluate your hotel assault victim lawsuit. If you have more questions, or would like to speak with an attorney about your hotel assault lawsuit, call us today at 888.375.9998.
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