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Hospitality Industry Legal Risks: Woman Sues Illinois Hotel Over Bartender's "Sexual Assault"; Convicted Employee Allegedly Obtained Room Key From Front Desk

“…The lawsuit contends Dabrowski on Oct. 27 spiked the woman’s drink with a “date rape” drug. He allegedly obtained the key to her room from the front desk and then sexually assaulted her as she lay unconscious on her bed in the hotel..”

A Naperville man accused in a federal lawsuit of sexually assaulting a female guest of the Hilton Lisle/Naperville hotel has been convicted of a misdemeanor charge of trespassing in the woman’s room.

Jayson D. Dabrowski, a former bartender at the hotel, has been ordered to serve seven days in the Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program, or SWAP, according to records on file in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton. Dabrowski has also been placed on two years of court supervision, records indicated.

The woman, a resident of Virginia, is seeking more than $75,000 in damages. Her lawsuit is not expected to come to trial for at least a year.

For more: http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/news/12554670-418/man-accused-of-lisle-hotel-sex-attack-found-guilty-of-trespassing.html

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Hospitality Industry Legal Risks: California Hotel Sued For Violating "State Liquor Control Act" By "Over-Serving Alcohol" To Hotel Guest Who Sustained Critical Spinal Injury In Fall

“…The complaint seeks compensatory, punitive and other damages from the Hotel St. Francis and Heritage Hotels and Resorts of Albuquerque, which has managed the hotel since 2008. It says the defendants violated the state Liquor Control Act and other laws by over-serving alcohol to Sherman…”

A California man says in a lawsuit that he is a paraplegic because he was over-served alcohol at the Hotel St. Francis’ bar two years ago, fell down and damaged his spine.  Mike Sherman of Petaluma, Calif., accuses the hotel staff of destroying videos that might show how he ended up with a vertebral fracture at the downtown hotel.

According to a complaint filed April 1 in state District Court, Sherman checked into the St. Francis on April 26, 2010, then went to its Secreto Bar and ran up three tabs totaling $177.97.

By 8 p.m., bar manager Daniel Gonzales determined Sherman was intoxicated, served him one more cocktail and told bar employees that would be his last, yet he was served other drinks later, the complaint says.

By 10 p.m., it says, Gonzales walked Sherman to his room, but later that evening, or early the next day, security guard James Cox found Sherman unconscious and lying on the floor outside two other hotel rooms.  Sherman was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center for emergency treatment of his spinal injury, then transferred back to California for further treatment.

The complaint by lawyers Esteban Aguilar of Albuquerque and Michael Kelly of San Francisco says a lawyer working for Sherman’s partner, Scott Clark, called Steve Caalim, who was then the hotel’s general manager, to ask that he preserve videos or other records relating to the incident.

But Sherman was told that none of the hotel’s several security cameras were working that night, the complaint says, accusing the hotel of having the videos “intentionally destroyed, erased, deleted or otherwise tampered with … to hide, conceal or destroy evidence.”

For more:  http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Man-sues-hotel-over-spinal-injury

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Hospitality Industry Legal Risks: California Hotel Sued For Violating "State Liquor Control Act" By "Over-Serving Alcohol" To Hotel Guest Who Sustained Critical Spinal Injury In Fall

“…The complaint seeks compensatory, punitive and other damages from the Hotel St. Francis and Heritage Hotels and Resorts of Albuquerque, which has managed the hotel since 2008. It says the defendants violated the state Liquor Control Act and other laws by over-serving alcohol to Sherman…”

A California man says in a lawsuit that he is a paraplegic because he was over-served alcohol at the Hotel St. Francis’ bar two years ago, fell down and damaged his spine.  Mike Sherman of Petaluma, Calif., accuses the hotel staff of destroying videos that might show how he ended up with a vertebral fracture at the downtown hotel.

According to a complaint filed April 1 in state District Court, Sherman checked into the St. Francis on April 26, 2010, then went to its Secreto Bar and ran up three tabs totaling $177.97.

By 8 p.m., bar manager Daniel Gonzales determined Sherman was intoxicated, served him one more cocktail and told bar employees that would be his last, yet he was served other drinks later, the complaint says.

By 10 p.m., it says, Gonzales walked Sherman to his room, but later that evening, or early the next day, security guard James Cox found Sherman unconscious and lying on the floor outside two other hotel rooms.  Sherman was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center for emergency treatment of his spinal injury, then transferred back to California for further treatment.

The complaint by lawyers Esteban Aguilar of Albuquerque and Michael Kelly of San Francisco says a lawyer working for Sherman’s partner, Scott Clark, called Steve Caalim, who was then the hotel’s general manager, to ask that he preserve videos or other records relating to the incident.

But Sherman was told that none of the hotel’s several security cameras were working that night, the complaint says, accusing the hotel of having the videos “intentionally destroyed, erased, deleted or otherwise tampered with … to hide, conceal or destroy evidence.”

For more:  http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Man-sues-hotel-over-spinal-injury

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Hospitality Industry Legal Risks: Illinois Hotel Sued For $75,000 By Woman Claiming Bartender Drugged And Sexually Assaulted Her

“…The bartender got a key to the woman’s room from the front desk staff and sexually assaulted her as she was passed out in the room, according to the lawsuit…”

“…The suit names the hotel as the defendant, claiming the staff was negligent in allowing the bartender access to the woman’s room. The suit seeks payment in excess of $75,000 plus the cost of court fees…”

A Virginia woman filed a lawsuit against a Lisle hotel claiming a bartender drugged her drink and later sneaked into her room with the help of a front desk clerk and sexually assaulted her.

The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court Wednesday, claims a 31-year-old bartender slipped a date-rape drug into the woman’s drink while she was at the Lisle-Naperville Hilton on Oct. 27. The woman began to feel ill at around 1:30 or 2 p.m. and went up to her room before her food had arrived at the hotel bar, said her attorney Jeffrey Deutschman.

For more:  http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120229/news/702299617/

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