Day on Torts
We have seen much of this story happen before. Woman is raped at gunpoint in a hotel parking garage. Woman sues hotel for negligent failure to keep premises secure. Hotel blames woman for failing to exercise due care – how dare she assume that the hotel parking garage was secure.
What you don’t see very often is the response of the co-defendant franchisor – the Marriott International. This is from the Washington Post story about the litigation:
Marriott said it has pressured the legal team [hired by the insurance company for the hotel franchisee] to withdraw the filings, saying in a statement Tuesday that it was ‘a mistake to suggest that the victim of this tragic incident was responsible for the vicious crime against her.’