Premises Liability

Jun 22, 2026

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…

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Jun 22, 2026

Beverly Crest Mansion Party Shooting: Wrongful Death & Negligent Security Claims — Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms & Property Owners for Gang-Related Gunfire at Unsecured 200-Person Gathering, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Cases, We Preserve Security Footage & Rental Agreements Before They Disappear, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule & Wrongful-Death Act, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Loved One Didn’t Come Home From a Beverly Hills Mansion Party — And Someone Is Responsible For That The 911 call came in just before 12:45 a.m. on August 4, 2020. When Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics reached the 13200 block of Mulholland Drive — a stretch of narrow, twisting road carved into the Santa Monica Mountains above Beverly Crest — they found three adults down on the driveway outside a three-story mansion. Two women and one man. One of the women, believed to be around 35 years old, was pronounced dead at the hospital. A second woman was listed in grave condition. A fifth victim, another adult male, self-transported to a local hospital and was later released. A sixth, an adult female, was in stable condition. She went to a party. She did not come home. If that sentence is yours — if you are reading this because your daughter, your sister, your mother, or your friend was one of the five people who were shot on the driveway of a Mulholland Drive mansion while a DJ played and a food truck served food to nearly 200 people inside — then you are in the right place. We…

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Jun 22, 2026

Fatal Mulholland Drive Mansion Party Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds the Property Owner and Short-Term Rental Platform for Negligent Security After 14 Shots Fired at an Illegal 200-Person Gathering, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Gang-Related Shootings, We Preserve the Social Media Footage and 911 Dispatch Logs Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful-Death Act Allows Recovery for the Three Children of Brandi Parham — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Sister, Your Mother, Your Daughter Was Killed at a House That Should Never Have Held 200 People You are reading this in the part of grief that has no name. The phone call that came before sunrise, the drive to a hospital where the people in scrubs could not look at you, the moment you understood the words “did not survive” were going to be your life from that morning forward. You are not looking for a lawyer because you want to argue. You are looking for one because every question you have asked since the night your loved one was killed at that party on Mulholland Drive has been answered with silence, with a press conference, or with a statement from an insurer that begins with the word “sympathy” and ends with a number that is not enough to bury her. We hear you. And we want to tell you the truth about what the law does, what it does not, and how the family of a 35-year-old mother of three who was shot and killed at a Beverly Crest mansion party in the early hours of August 4, 2020 can hold the right people accountable for what…

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Jun 22, 2026

Travelodge Hotel Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Budget Hotel Chains Accountable for Negligent Key-Card Security That Enabled Unauthorized Room Access & Violent 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 the Key-Card Audit Logs and CCTV Footage Before the Overwrite, Severe Psychological Trauma & Sexual Assault Injuries, 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

A Woman Checked Into a Travelodge Alone. The Front Desk Handed Her Attacker the Key to Her Room. A solo female guest booked a room at a Travelodge in the United Kingdom for the night. She was alone in her room when a man — not registered to the booking, not present at check-in — walked to the front desk and told staff he was her boyfriend and that he needed a replacement key card. Staff did not verify his identity. They did not call her room. They did not confirm anything. They handed him the key. He walked to her room. He sexually assaulted her. The perpetrator, Kyran Smith, was later sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. That is his sentence. It is not hers. It is not her family’s. It is the criminal court’s reckoning with one man. But the criminal case is not the whole story — and it was never going to be. The survivor’s civil case against the hotel is the other half, and it is the half the hotel did everything it could to keep quiet. Travelodge’s first response to the assault was to offer the survivor a £30 voucher —…

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Jun 22, 2026

Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Key Control Lawsuit in Des Moines, Iowa — Attorney911 Holds the Hotel Management Company and Its Corporate Owner for Handing a Stranger a Room Key Without ID Check, 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 the Electronic Lock Audit Trail Before It Is Purged, Iowa’s Premises Liability Law and the Foreseeability of Prior Security Breaches, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Checked In. You Locked the Door. Someone Else Had the Key. If you were sexually assaulted in a Des Moines hotel room after a stranger was handed your room key without anyone checking an ID, you already know what no brochure will tell you. The lock on the door meant nothing. The safety bolt meant nothing. The trust you placed in a name on the building meant nothing. What you lived through, and what you have carried since, is the harm the hotel was paid to prevent. We built this page for one person: the survivor or the family member reading at 2 a.m. with shaking hands, looking for someone in Iowa who will tell the truth about what happened, what the law actually does, and what comes next. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle premises-liability and sexual-assault civil claims in Iowa. Below we walk you through the entire case, the law, the defendants, the proof, and the clock — in plain English, with the legal seams dissolved. Nothing here is a sales pitch. It is a map of the road in front of you, written by trial lawyers who have walked it. If…

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Jun 22, 2026

Fort Lauderdale Airbnb Rape Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds the Short-Term Rental Platform Liable for Negligent Security After Cleaner Was Zip-Tied, Assaulted at Knife-Point in a Property With Two Prior Break-Ins — 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 Assault Cases, We Preserve the Prior-Incident Police Reports and Security Footage Before They Are Overwritten, Florida’s Premises Liability Doctrine on Foreseeability and Failure to Warn, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Are Here Because You Are Still Living With What Happened to You You were doing your job. You showed up to clean a home in Fort Lauderdale on the morning of August 28, 2024, the way you had shown up dozens, maybe hundreds of times before. You let yourself in. You set down your supplies. And then a man you had never seen before forced his way in, flashed a knife, threw you to the ground, and zip-tied you before he raped you. We are not going to tell you that what happened to you is something to “get past” or “move forward from.” We are not going to use the language of self-help books. We are going to tell you what the law actually says about what was done to you, and what it obligates the people responsible to do about it. This page is about the case that has been filed against Airbnb and the property owner, and about the law of negligent security in Florida that makes those defendants answerable for what happened to you. It is also about the evidence, the deadlines, and the people who are about to contact you with friendly-sounding offers to…

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Jun 22, 2026

Aria Resort & Casino Las Vegas Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds MGM Resorts Accountable for Over-Service of Alcohol and Security Failures in High Limit Lounge Assaults, 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 These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Key Card Logs Before They Are Overwritten, Substantial Bodily Harm from Strangulation and Facial Strikes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Room They Could Not Enter Without Suits You came to Las Vegas for a few days, a meeting, a show, a flight layover, a birthday. You checked into the Aria on the Strip because the Aria is a five-star property, and a five-star property promises, in every brochure and on every wall, that you are safe inside it. Then a man introduced himself to you as “Sky.” He was pleasant at first. You shared drinks. And then the drinks stopped being optional, or your body stopped being your own, or both, and when you came back to yourself you were in a hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip with blood on the sheets, blood on the floor, blood on the walls — so much blood that the hotel classified the room as a biohazard and locked it down, and your body was no longer yours to control. We have read the arrest report. We know what was found. We know the charges the Clark County District Attorney filed. We know that the accused had been a registered sex offender for years, with prior convictions in California stretching back two decades, and that a growing number of women have…

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Jun 22, 2026

Fort Lauderdale Airbnb Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms & Property Owners Liable for Violent Home Invasion & Negligent Security After Jane Doe Attacked with Knife & Zip Ties During Cleaning — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trauma, We Preserve Prior Crime Reports & Electronic Lock Logs Before They’re Deleted, Florida’s Foreseeable-Crime Doctrine & Failure-to-Warn Liability, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Sexual Assault Survivors — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Intruder Came Through the Front Door While You Were Working Inside You took a job cleaning a vacation rental in Fort Lauderdale. You showed up in the middle of the day. You were inside the home on SW 19th Street, doing what you were hired to do. Then a man came through that door, brandished a knife, put zip ties on your wrists, and did the unthinkable. That is not a “tragedy.” That is a failure. A failure of locks, of cameras, of warnings, of a platform that markets itself as safe and a property owner who knew — because police had been called to that same address before — that danger was already on the property. We represent people who are hurt because someone else failed the most basic duty there is: keeping them from being attacked in a place they were told was safe enough to work. If you are reading this in the days or weeks after an attack, we are sorry for what has happened to you. We want you to understand what the law can do about it, and we want to do it for you. We take cases like this in Fort Lauderdale…

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Jun 22, 2026

Aberdeen Motel Sexual Assault of Minors — Attorney911 Holds Negligent Property Owners Accountable for Failing to Protect Children from Foreseeable Crimes, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Motel Chains Value and Deny These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Guest Logs Before They Are Overwritten, North Carolina’s Child Victim Act Extends the Deadline for Civil Justice, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Sexual Violence — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If your daughter was raped at a motel in Aberdeen, you are not powerless. You may be reading this at 2 a.m. at a kitchen table, or in the hallway outside an interview room at the Aberdeen Police Department, or in the parking lot of the Children’s Advocacy Center in Moore County where a forensic analyst spent hours documenting what a man did to your twelve-year-old or your fourteen-year-old behind a motel door. You may have just hung up from a detective’s call and your hands are still shaking. You may not have eaten today. You may have already begun to wonder whether anyone will ever be held responsible for what happened, beyond the man in custody. We have spent decades in rooms like the one you are sitting in. We have done this hundreds of times, and we still take it personally every time. The answer to the question forming in the back of your mind is yes — the motel that rented that room, the manager who staffed that front desk, and the company that owns that property can be held to account in a civil court, separate from and in addition to the criminal case against the…

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Jun 22, 2026

Days Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuit in San Antonio & Houston — Attorney911 Holds Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Franchise Operators Under TVPRA for Multi-Year Exploitation of Jane Doe (A.A.M.), Cash-Paid Rooms, Extended Stays & Do-Not-Disturb Signs at Texas Properties, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Hotel Folios & Night Audit Records Before They Are Deleted, Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code Chapter 98 Allows Civil Recovery for Entities That Knowingly Benefit — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Case Came to Texas — Now the Real Work Begins The case that started in a Newark federal courtroom just changed addresses. A Jane Doe (identified in court papers as A.A.M.) filed a sex trafficking civil lawsuit against Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Days Inns Worldwide, and several franchise entities tied to Days Inn locations. She alleges she was trafficked between 2010 and 2014 at two Days Inn properties — one in San Antonio, one in Houston. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, with Judge Esther Salas presiding, ruled on four separate motions to dismiss. The judge split the claims: granting some, denying others. But she also ordered the case transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, where the San Antonio hotel sits. The case will now be litigated in the jurisdiction where the alleged abuse occurred. If you or someone you love was trafficked at a Days Inn, a Super 8, a Howard Johnson, or any other Wyndham-branded hotel in San Antonio, Houston, or anywhere along the I-10 and I-35 corridors, this is the page you need. We will walk you through exactly what the law allows, what the court…

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