Illinois Personal Injury

Tara Reid Drugged at Rosemont Hotel Bar: Attorney911 Pursues Negligent Security & Premises Liability Claims for Victims of Drink Tampering in Illinois, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Hotels and Bars Value and Deny These Cases, We Preserve CCTV Footage and Toxicology Reports Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Drink You Didn’t Order, a Napkin You Didn’t Place, and a Night You Can’t Remember If you or someone you love just came out of a hotel-bar incident in Rosemont — or any hotel in Cook County, or any bar in the State of Illinois — and the drink tasted wrong, the room went black, the next hours are missing, or the paramedics had to be called for a “sick person” at 12:30 in the morning, the next 72 hours will decide whether you have a case or just a memory. The truth is uncomfortable but kind: the people who wait to call a lawyer almost always lose the proof that would have won their case. The hotel’s cameras overwrite. The toxicology clears. The bar staff goes back to work and the napkin ends up in a bag of soiled linens. We get the call three weeks later and the case is already wounded. We would rather get the call in the first 24 hours. We wrote this page for the person we most often represent in this kind of matter: an adult who was at a hotel bar for a drink, went outside for a cigarette, came back…

Skokie Hotel Sexual Assault & Premises Liability Lawyers — Attorney911 Holds InterContinental Hotels Group and Its Holiday Inn Northshore for Negligent Security, Sending an On-Duty Male Guard to a Vulnerable, Intoxicated Guest’s Room After Hours, DNA Evidence Matched the Assault Yet the Hotel Retained Him for Over a Year, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Emotional Distress, We Preserve the Keycard Logs and Security Footage Before the Overwrite, $1.8M Jury Verdict for Karla Gress’s Loss of a Normal Life, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Stranger With a Master Key: How a Hotel’s Own Security Guard Became the Danger The phone call that started it came from a business traveler who was just trying to get her air conditioning fixed. She had done everything right. She chose a nationally branded hotel. She checked in under her own name. She called the front desk from the safety of her locked room. She trusted that the person who knocked on her door in response to that call was, in fact, a hotel employee sent to help her. The person who walked through that door was the hotel’s on-duty security guard. He had a master key. He had the room number because the front desk gave it to him. He had been sent to the room of a woman the front desk knew was intoxicated, alone, late at night. He used that key. He had done it before. The hotel knew. The evidence that broke this case open sits in a Cook County courtroom. A jury returned a $1.8 million verdict after hearing what the hotel already knew about the man they kept on the payroll, the warnings they ignored, and the policy they never changed. We…

Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawsuit in Skokie: $1.8M Verdict for Karla Gress After Holiday Inn Chicago Northshore Security Guard Rape — Attorney911 Holds InterContinental Hotels Group & Lakhani Hospitality Accountable for Failing to Protect Guests, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve the Electronic Keycard Logs & DNA Evidence Before They Disappear, Illinois Premises Liability Law & the Hotel’s Duty of Care, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Person Hired to Protect You Becomes the One Who Destroys Your Life She was on a business trip. She had a room key, a reservation, and the reasonable belief that the uniformed guard at the front of the Holiday Inn Chicago Northshore in Skokie was there to keep her safe. He wasn’t. On October 2, 2013, an on-duty security guard employed by the hotel raped her in her own room. DNA later linked him to the crime. He was fired, but not for more than a year afterward, and not for the assault. No criminal charges were ever filed. Yet a Cook County jury, years later, found the hotel’s owner legally responsible for the horror that an employee inflicted behind a closed door — and awarded $1.8 million to the survivor. That verdict tells you something important about how Illinois law treats the relationship between an innkeeper and a guest. It tells you that a hotel cannot point at the criminal act of its own employee and say, “Not our problem.” It tells you that the security uniform a guest is trained to trust creates a duty, and that duty can be breached with a verdict at the…

Lansing Motel Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Negligent Lodging Operators & Corporate Owners Liable Under Federal TVPRA & Illinois Civil Remedies for Child Exploitation—Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Survivors, We Preserve Motel Surveillance Footage & Guest Logs Before Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Abuse—No Fee Unless We Win, Free 24/7 Consultation, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lansing, Illinois Sex Trafficking Survivor Lawsuit — Your Civil Rights and the Federal Remedy Against the Motel That Profited If a 15-year-old girl was trafficked out of a Lansing motel, the criminal conviction is one piece. The civil case is a separate door that lets you pursue the motel itself, the trafficker personally, anyone who conspired with him, and the online platforms that posted the advertisements — under a federal statute written precisely for this moment. That statute is the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, and it gives a survivor a private right of action against anyone who knowingly benefited from a venture they knew, or should have known, was trafficking her. A motel that rents a room to a trafficker night after night falls squarely inside that language. Illinois law layers additional rights on top of it, including a statutory civil remedy for trafficking victims and a training mandate that, when ignored, helps prove what the motel should have known. This page is written for one person: a parent, sibling, advocate, or survivor herself who has just learned what happened in a Lansing motel room and is trying to find out what the law will actually do about it.…

Angel Colin, 35-Year-Old Marine Veteran Killed in a Forest View Two-Car Collision: Attorney911 Wrongful-Death Attorneys Pursue the At-Fault Driver and Hold the Illinois Wrongful-Death Act’s Full Weight for the Family, We Secure the Accident-Reconstruction Report, the Black-Box Data, the Toxicology Results and the Cell-Phone Forensics Before the Evidence Disappears, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values a 35-Year-Old Veteran’s Life, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ for Injury Victims, Illinois Allows Full Recovery of Grief and Sorrow Damages with No Statutory Cap — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Call Comes at 1 AM: A Cook County Family Learns a Loved One Never Made It Home The phone rings and the world tilts. Someone from a hospital is on the line. Someone from the Forest View Police Department is on the line. The words arrive in pieces — intersection, collision, transport, pronouncement — and somewhere in that call is the name of someone you have known since childhood, or since basic training, or since they walked into your life and refused to leave. The hours after that call are a fog of decisions no one prepared you for: identifying a body, calling family, choosing a funeral home, answering the door, signing papers, and — usually within a day or two — answering a phone that rings again, this time with a friendly voice at the other end that says, “We’re so sorry for your loss. We’d like to help. Can you just tell us what happened?” That second call is the one we want you to be ready for. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who take wrongful-death cases like this one, in places like Forest View, Cook County, Illinois, for…