Depending on where you do business, crime and its associated consequences may simply be a cost of doing business. Unfortunately, savvy Plaintiff’s lawyers have carved out a niche practice by targeting businesses in high crime areas of our inner cities/Plaintiff-friendly venues. Frequently hotels, restaurants, bars, and the like find themselves as repeat targets in premises liability lawsuits. And oftentimes the victims’ injuries are catastrophic –murder, rape, assault, emotional trauma, physical injury.

The general theme Plaintiff’s lawyers use in these cases is that the Defendant, in an effort to maximize profits, skimped on security measures that would have made the premises safe –i.e. crime free, risk free, covered in bubble wrap with no sharp edges or tripping hazards.