Legal
02 July, 2024
Quick Brief, 1 July 2024: US citizen missing from a Bahamas yoga resort – zone…

(Muir Analytics’ Quick Brief is broadly based on the Pentagon EXSUM briefing method. The aim is to quickly explain an evolving hotel threat issue in about 15 lines in executive…

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09 May, 2023
23 February 2023, Woman severely beaten outside two Philadelphia hotels sues Marriott and property owner…

Just after 7 pm on 23 February 2023, “a group of minors” – all 11-14 years old – says The Philadelphia Inquirer, ambushed and beat a 33-year-old woman on the…

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13 June, 2022
Muir Analytics provided litigation support for the TUI lawsuit over the 2015 Tunisia terrorist hotel…

In summer 2021, UK-based Irwin Mitchell law firm reached out to Muir Analytics to provide specialist litigation support for the negligence lawsuit against travel company TUI UK Ltd over the ISIS…

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12 August, 2021
12 August 2021, Anatomy of a hotel security negligence lawsuit – the Haggard Law Firm…

In July 2021, the Haggard Law Firm won a $1.32 million lawsuit for its client, Wiley Lowe. The suit was over security negligence at the Elysium Hotel in Fort Lauderdale,…

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16 June, 2021
Quick Brief, 16 June 2021: Paradise Beach Hotel in Kenya never got over terror attack;…

(Muir Analytics' Quick Brief is broadly based on the Pentagon EXSUM briefing method. The aim is to quickly explain an evolving hotel threat issue in about 15 lines in executive…

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05 October, 2020
5 October 2020, MGM Mandalay Bay 2017 massacre lawsuit finalized at $800 million

WREG Memphis reported that on 30 September 2020, Clark County District Court Judge Linda Bell approved an $800 million lawsuit settlement between 4,400 claimants and MGM over the Mandalay Bay-Route…

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01 March, 2019
14 February 2019, Embassy Suites Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa, settles rape case, security negligence obvious

The Chicago Tribune reported on 14 February 2019 that hotel companies Atrium TRS III (Atrium Hospitality) and Hammons Inc settled out of court a rape case from April 2014 that occurred…

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28 November, 2017
24 November 2017, Lawsuits over the October 2017 Las Vegas MGM hotel/concert venue attack pile…

On 20 November, Newsweek reports that a massive lawsuit was filed on behalf of 450 victims against the MGM Mandalay Bay Resort (and others, see below,) for negligence regarding the…

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10 October, 2017
Kate Taylor of The Business Insider writes about potential lawsuits RE: Mandalay Bay Vegas shooting

On 5 October, Kate Taylor of the Business Insider wrote an article titled, “The hotel where the Las Vegas gunman stockpiled weapons for 3 days has been quiet about what…

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10 September, 2017
10 September 2017, Insurance AND legal issues impact Regency Hotel Dublin over Feb 2016 gangster…

The assassination of Irish gangster David Byrne at the Regency Hotel Dublin on 5 February 2016 provides a textbook case study of hotel vs. insurance company wrangling over policies and…

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26 March, 2017
21 March 2017, Assault victims sue UK hotel for “breach of its duty of care”

On 21 March, The Guardian announced that three sisters from the UAE had begun a lawsuit against The Cumberland, a hotel in London, over an assault they suffered at the…

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14 March, 2017
13 March 2017, Lawsuit against TUI regarding Sousse hotel massacre moves forward

A group of families whose relatives were killed and/or injured in the June 2015 ISIS attack on the Riu Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse, Tunisia, is moving forward with their…

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17 October, 2016
12 October 2016, William Michael Jr. of Mayer Brown LLP, writes about hotel liabilities

On 12 October, William Michael Jr. of Mayer Brown LLP, published an informative article on hotel liabilities related to terrorism titled, "Hotels at Risk: The Legal Consequences of Terrorist Attacks on…

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04 October, 2016
15 August 2016, Lawsuit over sexual assault

The Insurance Journal reports that in August 2016, a female employee of the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and its Na Ho'ola Spa filed a lawsuit against the hotel and one…

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16 February, 2016
15 February 2016, Mumbai attack hotel lawsuit settled; trends RE: jurisdiction and liabilities demonstrated

On 21 January 2016, DNA India news reported that the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel (owned by Indian Hotels Company Ltd, which is owned by the Tata Group,) had settled a…

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16 September, 2015
11 September 2015, UK firm launches lawsuit against Thompson over 26 June 2015 Tunisia hotel…

Reuters reported on 11 September that a group of UK victims (injured and families of the deceased) of the 26 June terror attack on the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse,…

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22 August, 2015
11 August 2015, Not terrorism, but a possible legal precedent for hotel safety and security…

CBS Boston reported on 11 August that a female rape victim was awarded $6.6 million in damages for an attack that happened on a hotel’s premises in 2009. A jury…

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08 July, 2015
7 July 2015, Myanmar – bombers sentenced

On 3 July, a Myanmar district court sentenced Saw Myint Lwin to life in prison with hard labor for helping a terror cell bomb the Traders Hotel in Yangon in…

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12 April, 2015
19 March 2015, the Honorable Thomas A. Dickerson on protecting hotel guests

On 19 March 2015, the Hon. Thomas A. Dickerson, writing for eturbonews.com, penned an article titled, “Primer on hotel law: The common law – duty to protect guests from others.”…

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12 April, 2015
28 October 2014, Mumbai attacks, Chicago-based lawsuit

On 28 October 2014, the estate of a Chicago man killed in the Oberoi Trident hotel during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the Cook…

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