Maryland Personal Injury

North Bethesda Marriott Hotel Shooting Wrongful Death Lawyers — Attorney911 Holds the Property Owner and Security Firm Accountable for the Fatal Gunshot in the Parking Lot at Checkout Time, 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 Surveillance Footage and Patrol Logs Before the Overwrite, Maryland’s Wrongful-Death Act and the High Duty of Care Owed to Hotel Guests, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Call Comes at the Worst Moment of Your Life Someone you love was staying at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center on Marinelli Road in North Bethesda. Around 11:30 in the morning, while the checkout rush was building, he walked into the parking lot. A man walked up and shot him in the head. First responders tried to save him. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 41 years old. You are reading this because you are the family, or because you are the person trying to hold the family together while someone else makes funeral arrangements, while detectives call, while a hotel spokesperson sends the first of what will be many carefully worded emails. “Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.” What we want to do in the next several thousand words is tell you what Maryland law actually does for a family in your position. Not the law in the abstract. Not the law as a brochure. The law as it works against a major hotel brand, against an unknown shooter, against a 3-year filing deadline, and against a damage cap that every insurance adjuster in America…

Human Trafficking & Forced Prostitution at Jessup, Maryland Red Roof Inn — Attorney911 Holds the Motel Chain and Its Franchisee for Failing to Stop the Online-Advertised Exploitation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Trafficking Cases, We Preserve the Guest Registration Records and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Federal TVPRA and Maryland’s Trafficking Victim Protections, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Crime Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Are Not Alone, and You Have Rights If you were trafficked at the Red Roof Inn on Washington Boulevard in Jessup — or at any motel, hotel, or short-term rental in Howard County — we want you to hear something clearly before anything else in this page: what happened to you was a crime, not a choice. The people who took money from your exploitation can be held civilly answerable, separate from the criminal case the State of Maryland is already pursuing. We represent survivors, not the people who hurt them. The criminal charges that came out of the Howard County Police Department’s investigation — two defendants, Zhongmei Zhang and Li Yu, each facing two counts of human trafficking and two counts of prostitution, after officers responding to a tip on July 17, 2019, found victims inside a room in the 8000 block of Washington Boulevard — opened the door. The civil door is yours, and it does not depend on whether the criminal prosecution ends the way you hope. We can pursue compensation from the people who facilitated the venture, the hotel that took the room money, and anyone else who benefited from what you were forced to…

Havre de Grace, Harford County Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Maryland Hotel Operators Accountable Under TVPRA for Enabling Trafficking at Best Budget Inn & Other Motels Along US-40 Corridor — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles Trafficking Claims, We Preserve Guest Folios, Cash-Payment Records & Police Call Logs Before They Are Purged, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Are Not What Happened to You There If you or someone you love was trafficked out of a room at the Best Budget Inn on Pulaski Highway in Havre de Grace, or out of any other budget motel along the I-95 corridor through Harford County, this page was written for you. We wrote it because we have seen how the legal system responds to survivors of commercial sexual exploitation when the right law is invoked against the right defendant, and because we have also seen how often survivors are told by well-meaning people that they have no case, that the law does not reach the motel, that they should not name the brand. Most of what you have been told is wrong. Federal law gives you a private right of action against any business that knowingly benefited from the venture that trafficked you. The law was written precisely for the situation you are sitting with right now. The motel was not a neutral bystander. It rented the room. It took the cash. It set the rate. And in too many cases along the Pulaski Highway and US-40 corridor, motels like this one saw what was happening at the front…