Man Alleges Hotel Responsible For His Wife’s Murder As She Was A Guest
On the evening of October 22nd and 23rd, Joseph Finley claimed that his wife Laura was murdered inside the Biltmore Hotel where he and his wife had checked in as paying guests when he was in Los Angeles auditioning for “America’s Got Talent". News sources indicate that Laura Finley was beaten to death inside the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Joe Finley alleged that it was because of “the luxury hotel’s shoddy security". A complaint was filed against Millennium and Copthorne Hotels LLC d/b/a Millennium Biltmore Hotel. It was alleged that the Biltmore’s 683 guest rooms were booked “at or near capacity" the night Laura Finley was killed but Finley alleges that there was inadequate security because the hotel was remodeling its first and second floors which had become a crash pad for transients. Finley further alleges that the Biltmore knew of the trespasses and “other serious crimes against hotel guests and their property, including but not limited to assaults with deadly weapons, thefts, and other disturbances by transients and other uninvited parties". Finley also claims that the dangers were obvious, “as evidenced by the following items scattered on those two floors: (1) open alcohol bottles, (2) empty food containers, (3) filthy clothing, (4) cigarette butts, (5) wrappers, (6) bottles full of urine, and (7) dirty blankets. More telling, he claims, is the door which lead to the street was propped open by a piece of brick that was tied to that door by a shoestring. During their first night at the Biltmore, Finley claims his wife was locked out of her room and in the morning a Biltmore security officer found her at the bottom of the staircase, naked from the waist up wearing only pants inside out with her diamond rings missing. Finley claims his wife was “murdered by a transient or uninvited third party who gained access to the defendant Biltmore Hotel through the unsecured floor on the first floor of the hotel which was near where Laura Finley’s body was found. Finley and his three children by their lawyers demanded damages for wrongful death and negligence.
Inadequate and negligent security legal cases involve the failure of business proprietors such as hotel and motel owners and operators to implement reasonable and ordinary security measures for the protection of their customers from crime necessary for the protection of customers. Safety and privacy of hotel and motel guests should be the top priority for owners and operators. However, this many times is not the case. Usually we hear about an inadequate security case after an easily avoidable tragedy occurs.
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