Las Vegas Negligent Security

Las Vegas has a lot to offer its guests. One of the main reasons that people visit Las Vegas is to party with their friends, which often includes trips to numerous nightclubs and bars. However, some of these parties will run into trouble as a result of too much alcohol and bad decision making. One of the problems is bouncer-customer relationships. There are often disputes about prices, drinks, and other activities that occur on such an escapade with a group of friends. With these disputes comes the use of physical force that could cause injury to the customer. If the dispute was in good-faith, what should the victim of such physical force do?

An incident that occurred in 2001 is a great example of what you should do if you are physically attacked over a good-faith dispute over money owed for services rendered. A customer at a Las Vegas club refused to pay when a dancer charged him $600 for a dance he believed would cost only $100. The bouncers escorted the customer outside into the parking lot, where they allegedly beat him unconscious.

When the customer came too, “he found himself in the parking lot of the club covered in blood, his clothes torn and his wallet and its contents were missing,” the lawsuit states regarding the March 2001 incident.

The allegations, similar to those in at least four other lawsuits against the same club filed in recent years, also echo accusations leveled in a racketeering indictment unsealed on Wednesday.

In it, authorities accuse the club’s shift manager and unnamed others at the club of using force to compel customers to pay disputed charges. This presents a clear problem and as a victim of such abuse; you need to know how to take the appropriate action.

The indictment cites five incidents between April 2000 and January 2001 in which they contend the shift manager took a customer’s property by force. The document provides few details and the victims are identified only by their initials.

Las Vegas police responded to most of the incidents that led to the lawsuits, which either the club won, are pending in court or have been settled.

“There is a common theme here,” police spokesman said while looking over allegations lodged against club employees in police reports. “That people are beaten up for not paying a tab or paying for a lap dance.” Obviously this presents a problem to the customers and for the owners of these establishments. However, physically beating the tab out of customer is brutish, unnecessary, and illegal.

Police made no arrests after the incident because they received conflicting statements and there weren’t any independent witnesses, police spokesman said.

The customer suffered injuries to his neck, head, back, limbs and internal organs, the lawsuit states. He sued the club’s owner and several employees for battery, wrongful conversion of property, negligent supervision and punitive damages.

The case was scheduled to go to trial in June 2005. However, in December 2004, the plaintiff offered to settle the case for $225,000, according to court documents.

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