Tampa Negligent Security Lawyers

Every day there are people injured in the Tampa Bay area as result of poor security. When you travel to a place of business such as a restaurant, hotel, mall, parking garage or apartment complex, you have an expectation that you will be safe wherever you travel. If you are assaulted while in a public place, you may be able to make a recovery against the owner, operator or lessee of the business where the attack took place. In order to make such a recovery, you must prove that the owner of a business knew of prior security problems, but took no steps to fix the problem.

This is done by proving prior similar attacks took place on the premises, what security measures were in place during those prior attacks and what security is in place now. We look at whether the attack was preventable through security measures such as security guards, lighting or surveillance cameras. If we can show that the use of such measures might have prevented the attack, you may be able to recover damages for negligent security. Owners not only must provide you a safe business place, they have a duty to insure their employees will do you no harm. Each business has a duty to screen its employees to insure they do not have criminal or violent backgrounds which could put patrons at risk. Background checks can be conducted at little cost, to help insure employees do not rob or assault persons who come on premises do business.