Premises Liability

Jun 23, 2026

Sioux Falls Motel Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawyers — Attorney911 Holds Rushmore Motel Accountable for Unsecured Key Access That Allowed a Transient to Enter a Sleeping Guest’s Room, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Sexual Battery Cases, We Preserve the Key Control Logs and Surveillance Footage Before They Are Overwritten, South Dakota’s Innkeeper Duty and Foreseeability of Prior Crime, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Premises Liability — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Were Asleep in a Room You Paid For. Someone Got the Key. We are talking to one person when we write this page. You are reading it at 1 a.m. or 6 a.m. or in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon, and you are not reading it for fun. You are reading it because you paid for a room at a motel in Sioux Falls, you closed the door, you lay down, and a man got in. Not through a window. Not by kicking the door in. He got a key. From the manager’s office. And then he came to your room, and he put his hands on you while you slept. That is what the police report says happened on the night in question at the Rushmore Motel on East 10th Street. The man who did it is in the criminal system. He will face a burglary charge and a sexual-contact-without-consent charge. That is the criminal case. It is the State of South Dakota’s case, not yours. It will not pay for the therapy you may need for years, the nights you cannot sleep in a locked room anymore, the marriage that has to carry this, or the…

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Jun 23, 2026

Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault at Jacksonville NC Hotel Near Camp Lejeune — Attorney911 Holds Choice Hotels International & Suburban Studios for Negligent Security After Amy Gurganus Was Roofied, Assaulted, and Left With Bruising, Bleeding, and Strangulation Injuries, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Keycard Logs Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Sexual Assault Survivors — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Place That Was Supposed to Be Safe Became the Crime Scene: How We Help Survivors in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina You checked into a hotel near Camp Lejeune for a quiet stay. You walked out having been drugged, sexually assaulted, and then told the place you paid to stay was no longer the right place for you. The police came and went without taking a single piece of evidence from your room. The report they wrote down did not even use the word “assault.” And now, somewhere between the bruises on your arms and the soreness in your neck, you are trying to figure out what your rights actually are, what evidence still exists, and who pays for what was done to you. We work these cases. Our team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — has built a trial practice around exactly the kind of catastrophic injury and negligent-security cases that arise when a property owner invites the public in and then fails to protect the people inside. Ralph Manginello leads our trial team with 27+ years in courtrooms including federal court, a journalist’s instinct for the document that proves the case, and a…

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Jun 23, 2026

Fatal Dallas Motel Shooting & Negligent Security Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Flora Motel Ownership Accountable for Foreseeable Violent Crime in High-Risk West Dallas Corridor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Fighting for the Innocent Bystander Wounded and the Family of the Man Killed in the Parking-Lot Gunfire Exchange, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Motel Shootings, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage and Police Calls-for-Service Records Before the Overwrite, Texas Premises Liability Law Requires Property Owners to Protect Guests from Known Dangers — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When someone you love was killed or wounded outside the motel where they parked If you are reading this at 2 a.m., pulled up on a laptop after the police finished their scene, your phone still carrying the last text or call from the person who didn’t come home, this page is for you. We are sorry. We will not pretend a website can hold what the last forty-eight hours have held. But we can tell you what we know about what happened outside the Flora Motel on the 2800 block of Fort Worth Avenue in West Dallas in the early hours of April 29, 2026 — and what Texas law actually allows a family to do when a loved one is killed or shot outside the place that was supposed to keep them safe. A man and a woman were sitting in a parked car just after midnight. Another vehicle pulled up beside them and someone inside it opened fire. The man inside the first car returned fire in self-defense and was struck and killed. The woman beside him — described by police as an innocent bystander — was injured. Two people inside the second vehicle were also shot;…

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Jun 23, 2026

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…

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Jun 23, 2026

Hotel Room Keycard Security Failures & Sexual Assault at Maidenhead, Berkshire Travelodge — Attorney911 Holds UK Hotel Chains Accountable for Negligent Staff Who Handed Room Keys to Unauthorized Attackers, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve Front-Desk CCTV and Electronic Lock Audit Logs Before They Are Overwritten, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trauma, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Were Sexually Assaulted in a Hotel, This Page Is for You You trusted a hotel to keep you safe. You were travelling, or working, or just needed a room for the night. You checked in. You were given a key — a small plastic card, a worn metal thing, or a code. That key was supposed to be yours, and yours alone. Then a stranger walked in, or a man you knew walked in without your permission, and what happened next has rewritten the way you sleep, the way you trust, the way you walk through a hotel lobby. If that story is yours, the page below is yours. We are a US-based trial firm that handles negligent-security and premises-liability cases, including sexual assault and rape in hotels, motels, and short-term rentals. The case that opens this page happened in Maidenhead, Berkshire County, in the United Kingdom — a woman was raped in her hotel room after a male colleague tricked front-desk staff into thinking he was her husband, and the staff handed him her room key. We use that case as our anchor because it shows, in plain daylight, what a hotel security failure actually looks like.…

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Jun 23, 2026

Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Slip and Fall Verdict: $3.4M Award for Jesse Lozano’s Cervical Injury After Marble Floor Spill—Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Nevada Premises Liability Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How Casinos Set Reserves and Deny Claims, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Janitorial Logs Before the Overwrite, Nevada’s 50% Comparative Negligence Rule Cuts Recovery in Half, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Spinal Injury Victims—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Nevada Jury Returned a $3.4 Million Verdict After a Man Slipped on Marble at Paris Las Vegas — Here Is What That Case Teaches Every Injured Visitor in Las Vegas We picked up the phone one day and the caller was sitting in a rented apartment in Henderson, two years removed from a trip to see a Cirque du Soleil show. He was 60 when he walked through the main corridor of Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and came down hard on wet marble. By the time he called us, the 2018 spill had already cost him years of cervical spine treatment, a nerve stimulator implant, and a future of pain that no jury award can fully repair. His case, Jesse Lozano v. Paris Hotel and Casino, Case No. A-20-823179-C in Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Court, became the kind of verdict we want every reader of this page to understand — because the law that produced that $3.4 million gross verdict (reduced to roughly $1.7 million collectible after the jury assigned him 50% comparative fault) controls whether you recover anything if you fall on a polished casino floor tomorrow. This page is the complete manual we give to…

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Jun 23, 2026

Beverly Crest Mansion Party Shooting: Wrongful Death & Catastrophic Injury Claims Against Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Negligence — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to California Premises Liability Cases, We Pursue the Property Owners, Management Companies & Security Firms That Failed to Prevent 20 Gunshots in a Crowd of 700, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Tragedies, We Preserve Social Media Footage & Police Dispatch Records Before They Vanish, Los Angeles Party House Ordinance & COVID-19 Health Order Violations, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Beverly Crest Mansion Party Shooting: Holding the Homeowner, the Host, and the Security Firm Accountable Under California Law It is just after midnight when your phone rings, and the voice on the other end tells you to come to a hospital, or to the intersection of a road you have never been to, or to a house you did not know your loved one was at. The hours that follow are a fog of waiting rooms, phone calls, and a single question that does not form into words for a long time. We have sat across from families at that exact hour, and we want you to know two things before you read another line. First, in California, the law gives the family of a person killed in a shooting at a rented mansion real and substantial rights against every layer of the people who profited from that night. Second, the next 72 hours matter more than the next 72 months, because the evidence that proves a negligent security case erases itself on schedules you would not believe unless someone told you. That is what this page is for. This article treats one event, in plain California law, at the…

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Jun 23, 2026

Maidenhead Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Travelodge Accountable for Issuing Room Key Cards to Strangers, Enabling Forcible Assaults in Guest Rooms, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles Premises Liability Claims, We Preserve CCTV Footage and Key-Card Logs Before They Are Overwritten, Psychological Trauma and Fear of Unsafe Accommodations, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Corporate Negligence — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Were Sexually Assaulted at a Travelodge in Maidenhead, This Page Is for You We are sorry for what has happened to you. Reading this page means something terrible has already happened, and you are trying to understand what the law will and will not do for you. We will not soft-pedal that. A woman checked into a Travelodge in Maidenhead believing the room behind the locked door was hers — the one safe place every guest is supposed to have. A man walked in with a key the hotel had given him after he said one sentence: that he was her boyfriend. What followed was a sexual assault. He has since been convicted and jailed. You are reading this either because you are that woman, because another woman has come forward with what happened to her in a Travelodge in Maidenhead, or because you love someone in that position and you are trying to understand whether the law anywhere — anywhere at all — will make a hotel answer for letting this happen. We have looked at the facts that are public, at the controlling law of England and Wales, and at what the courts in the United…

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Jun 23, 2026

Hotel Kamp & Starwood Hotel Sexual Assault Lawsuit in Helsinki — Attorney911 Holds Luxury Hotel Chains Accountable for Room Key Security Failures That Enable Assault, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trauma, We Preserve Front Desk Logs and Surveillance Footage Before They Are Deleted, Psychological Trauma and Career Impact for High-Earning Professionals, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Negligent Security Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hotel Gave Him the Key. He Used It on You. You are reading this in the worst hours, or the worst weeks, of your life. You did everything right. You traveled alone for work because that is what your career required. You checked into a respected international hotel because that is what your employer paid for. You expected that when you closed and locked the door of your room, that lock was a promise. You expected that a stranger could not walk up to a front desk at 4 a.m. and be handed the key to your bed. He did not have to break in. He did not have to pick the lock. The desk clerk did it for him. A man walked to the counter, said he was your husband, and the hotel — without checking anything, without verifying anything — handed him the key to your room. The hotel in Helsinki opened the door for him, and then it washed its hands of what he did once he walked through it. You may have escaped with the clothes on your back. You may have run to the hallway. You may have been left standing in a corridor…

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Jun 23, 2026

Maidenhead Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Travelodge Accountable After Staff Handed Room Key to Attacker Without Verification, Federal-Court-Admitted Trial Attorney Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Premises Liability Litigation, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trauma, We Preserve CCTV and Keycard Logs Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Severe Assault — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Hotel Gave Him the Key — And Now the Hotel Has to Answer for What He Did With It If you are reading this page, someone you love walked into a Travelodge in Maidenhead and never walked back out the same person. She booked a room, she checked in alone, she asked for the privacy and safety every guest is owed, and a member of the hotel staff handed a stranger her key card after a conversation that took seconds. The criminal courts have already convicted the man who walked through that door. What the news has not told you is that the conviction is not the end of the case — it is the beginning of the civil case, the one that goes after the hotel that put the key in his hand and the chain that wrote the procedures that made it possible. We have spent decades in courtrooms on cases just like this one: premises liability, negligent security, sexual assault in a hotel room, the duty an occupier owes to the people who pay to sleep behind its doors. We know exactly how these cases work, what the hotel’s lawyers will argue, what the evidence will…

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