A hotel owes a higher level of care than an apartment building. A hotel is supposed to provide a home away from home. The fact that the building failed past fire inspections certainly brings negligence into question. The fact that these people died in a fire is definitely the responsibility of the hotel owner.
Anybody remember Duty-Breach-Proximate Cause? We don’t know enough to make a responsibility call here. A professional would not say responsibility rests solely due to an outcome — that’s the plaintiff attorney’s job. To which they are well compensated, and some of use owe our jobs to.
I have built a career on writing hospitality business and I’ll tell you right now, the hotel will pay. Either pony up for a settlement or take to trial and roll the dice. Juries are not sympathetic to business owners that allow their guests to be killed in a fire on their premises. That may not be Insurance 101 but it’s Real Life 101.
No offense. Agree with you Polly — we/I see it every day. Juries and claims who are afraid of them. Go-away money versus what the claims consultants tell ’em what it might cost. Like I said, we sometimes end up working for the plaintiff attorneys.
Meanwhile, we try to price to the unknown.
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A hotel owes a higher level of care than an apartment building. A hotel is supposed to provide a home away from home. The fact that the building failed past fire inspections certainly brings negligence into question. The fact that these people died in a fire is definitely the responsibility of the hotel owner.
Anybody remember Duty-Breach-Proximate Cause? We don’t know enough to make a responsibility call here. A professional would not say responsibility rests solely due to an outcome — that’s the plaintiff attorney’s job. To which they are well compensated, and some of use owe our jobs to.
I have built a career on writing hospitality business and I’ll tell you right now, the hotel will pay. Either pony up for a settlement or take to trial and roll the dice. Juries are not sympathetic to business owners that allow their guests to be killed in a fire on their premises. That may not be Insurance 101 but it’s Real Life 101.
No offense. Agree with you Polly — we/I see it every day. Juries and claims who are afraid of them. Go-away money versus what the claims consultants tell ’em what it might cost. Like I said, we sometimes end up working for the plaintiff attorneys.
Meanwhile, we try to price to the unknown.
It is called a hotel but this is not really a hotel. Those who died were tenants from my understanding of the local news reports.