The Haggard Law Firm represented minor children who were molested several times by a local baseball coach. The coach admitted to these crimes during criminal proceedings.

The Defendants in this cased had the responsibility to check backgrounds and consistently monitor all adults involved with the baseball program but failed to do so. The coach had a history riddled with incidents of child molestation spanning over 23 years.

He had several prior convictions for child molestation and lewd and lascivious behavior with children under age 14. He spent time at a mental institution located only miles from San Bernardino, which was known to house mentally ill sexual deviants. Each time he was released, he returned to his addiction of sexually molesting children.

The Haggard Law Firm argued the Defendants negligently fostered an environment which was conducive to the infiltration of a sexual predator in their midst, because of which the minor children were exposed and subjected to the sexual molestation by a known pedophile.

During the height of a particularly violent spring break season on Miami Beach, hotel guest Christine Englehardt was drugged by strangers, raped and murdered. The hotel’s on-site security guard was nowhere to be found, and the only front desk clerk on duty was distracted by his cell phone. These two employees failed to recognize a visibly drugged Christine making her way across the hotel lobby with two strangers who were intent on causing her harm.

The Haggard Law Firm obtained a $1.25 Million settlement in the case.

Jane Doe was leaving a restaurant at XYZ Shopping Plaza when she was robbed at gunpoint, abducted, and sexually assaulted by two unknown assailants.

S.B. filed suit against the shopping plaza and its security company for not taking more security steps to prevent the sexual assault in an area that had a history of criminal acts. The Haggard Law Firm’s lawyers cited sub-standard security and security procedures, absence of surveillance cameras, insufficient lighting, and absence of signage – all which are proven deterrents to crime.

A young woman was living in an apartment complex in Northern Florida. While she was sleeping, an unknown assailant entered her apartment and committed a brutal sexual assault.

Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the apartment complex contenting they did not protect her from the sexual assault and allowed this criminal to enter the complex undeterred.

Ms. Doe had been previously burglarized prior to the sexual assault and notified the apartment complex of defective locks on the door. Plaintiff filed suit contending defendants did not provide reasonable security. The case was set for trial and settled shortly before. Ms. Doe recovered $1.85 Million.

Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the apartment complex contenting they did not protect her from the sexual assault and allowed this criminal to enter the complex undeterred.

The Haggard Law Firm represented five young girls against the School Board of Miami Dade County who were sexually abused by their gym teacher at a Miami Dade County Middle School.

Some victims reported that former Brownsville Middle School teacher Wendell Nibbs raped them, while others reported he sexually harassed and inappropriately touched them.

The Haggard Law Firm argued the School Board was aware of Nibbs’ inappropriate and illegal behavior, as well as the risk he posed to young female students, and did nothing about it.

Between 2004 and 2016, Nibbs had been accused by at least six different female middle school students of making inappropriate sexual comments, engaging in inappropriate physical contact of a sexual nature, and sending or showing them sexually explicit photographs. Despite these separate accusations Nibbs was permitted to remain at Brownsville Middle as a teacher. The victims recovered $8.7M from the School Board.