Crime victims usually
don't realize they have options beyond the criminal courts
when they are raped, assaulted or otherwise hurt during
a crime.
Below, we have listed some of our clients' terrifying
stories and the lawsuits filed on their behalf due to landowner
negligence. Please contact us if you have any concerns about
your criminal victimization or about one of the cases listed
below.
Although we have collected over $30
million dollars for our clients and their families, we have
not listed the amounts of any settlement or verdicts reached
in these cases in order to protect our clients' privacy
or to honor confidential settlement agreements.
Examples
of C
ases Handled
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A young North Carolina
woman applied to rent an apartment in a modern luxury complex.
The manager showed her a first floor apartment. She was worried
about being on the first floor and specifically requested
an upper story apartment. Management told the young woman
that none was available but that the first floor apartments
were completely safe. The manager affirmed that there had
been no crime anywhere in the complex. As it turned out, this
was false. There had been a wide pattern of break-ins, assaults
and armed robberies in the complex. After only a few weeks
of occupancy, a man entered the apartment while she was asleep
by prying open a sliding glass door that had an inadequate
lock. He raped the tenant in her apartment. The sliding glass
door was not fitted with a secondary locking device that would
have cost the complex under $5 to install. An apartment manager
testified that the expense was not authorized by the owners
of the complex, since there were over 100 first floor apartments.
Management was aware that the primary locks on these sliding
glass doors were inadequate and that there had been numerous
break-ins at the complex through these doors where there was
no secondary lock installed. Immediately after the tenant
was raped, she moved from the apartment complex. Two young
women rented the very apartment where the victim was raped.
These prospective tenants also asked about crime, and despite
the manager's direct knowledge of the recent rape, she told
the young women there was not a crime problem at the complex.