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◉ Negligent Security Claims

You Were on Their Property. Their Responsibility. Their Liability.

Courts across the country have sent a clear message to landlords, hotel chains, nightclubs, and shopping centers: when property owners ignore known dangers and fail to provide reasonable security, they can be held financially responsible for the crimes that follow. If you were attacked, assaulted, raped, robbed, or lost a loved one on someone else’s property, you may have the right to significant compensation – not from the criminal, but from the property owner who failed to protect you.

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Legal Criteria

See If You Qualify

for Cash Compensation.

The following types of incidents are recognized by courts across the country in negligent security claims. Select the one that best describes what you experienced.

Shooting or Stabbing

Armed attacks on poorly lit or unpatrolled properties, apartment complexes, parking lots, gas stations, and fast-food restaurants are among the most common and most compensable negligent security claims.

Robbery or Violent Mugging

If you were robbed at gunpoint or physically harmed in a robbery at a shopping center, ATM, parking garage, or retail location where the risk of crime was foreseeable, you may have a case.

Sexual Assault or Rape

Property owners who fail to secure access to hotel rooms, apartment hallways, parking structures, or nursing home facilities can be held liable when residents or guests are sexually assaulted on their premises.

Assault and Battery

Unprovoked physical attacks at bars, nightclubs, apartment common areas, or any commercial property where security was absent, undertrained, or insufficient can give rise to a legal claim.

Wrongful Death

If you lost a family member to a violent crime on someone else’s property, you may be entitled to survivor damages, including medical expenses, funeral costs, and loss of companionship.

Kidnapping

Victims who were abducted from parking garages, apartment grounds, or other private properties with inadequate access controls have successfully recovered significant verdicts and settlements in court.
Property type requirement: The incident must have occurred on property owned, leased, or controlled by a private party, such as a landlord, business, hotel, or property management company, where a legal duty to provide reasonable security existed.

Legal Criteria

It’s Not Your Fault.

It Was Their Responsibility.

Property owners, landlords, hotel chains, apartment management companies, bar owners, and shopping centers have a legal duty to protect the people they invite onto their premises from foreseeable criminal harm. That duty doesn’t require them to guarantee your safety. It requires them to take reasonable steps to prevent crimes they knew or should have known were likely to happen. When they skip those steps to save money, someone always pays the price.
The Warning Signs They Ignored

Prior crime on the property

Businesses and landlords often receive police reports, tenant complaints, and incident logs warning them that violent crime has occurred before. When they fail to act on that knowledge, courts have consistently found them liable for what happens next.
The Failures That Let It Happen

Broken Locks, Dark Hallways, No Guards

Inadequate lighting in parking areas, broken or missing door locks, absent or undertrained security personnel, nonfunctioning surveillance cameras, and unmonitored access points are not accidents; they are cost-cutting decisions. Property owners choose not to fix them. The courts have made clear those choices carry consequences.
The Result

You Were Left Unprotected

Juries across the country have looked at the same scenario time and again: a property owner knew crime was happening, knew their security was inadequate, and did nothing. When those facts are in front of a jury, the verdicts reflect it. Negligent security cases have resulted in some of the largest premises liability awards in the country.

$1M–$31M+

Documented verdicts and settlements in negligent security cases range from six figures for assault and robbery claims to eight figures in cases involving wrongful death, rape, and catastrophic injury, all against property owners who failed to provide basic security.

Court Verdicts

Nearly $224 Million in Verdicts and Settlements

Court Verdicts & Settlements in Negligent Security Cases

$31 Million

Georgia Apartment Complex – February 2026

A child was shot and initially paralyzed at an apartment complex where the property owner and management company failed to maintain reasonable security measures despite a foreseeable risk of violent crime. The case resulted in a $31 million settlement, one of the largest of its kind.

$45 Million

The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed a $45 million verdict against CVS after a man was shot in the parking lot of a pharmacy in Marietta. The court clarified that property owners must be evaluated on a case-by-case, totality-of-circumstances standard and can be held liable even when the attacker acted intentionally.

$24 Million

A pretrial settlement was reached in a negligent security case arising from a shooting at a fast-food restaurant, one of multiple eight-figure premises liability results recovered in recent years.

$21.25 Million

A jury returned a $21.25 million verdict in Oregon following a fatal shooting by a store security guard, underscoring that courts scrutinize not only the absence of security but its negligent implementation.

$102.7 Million

Shopping Center Parking Lot Largest Known Verdict of Its Kind
A jury awarded $102.7 million to a victim rendered a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic after being shot in a shopping center parking lot, widely believed to be the largest negligent security verdict in U.S. history.

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