The Haggard Law Firm’s Todd Michaels has obtained a confidential $1.8 Million settlement in a negligent security wrongful death case.
The Haggard Law Firm’s client, John Doe Jr, was shot and killed while standing in line to enter a pop-up nightclub located within a banquet hall. He was survived by a six-year-old son.
The Defendant, XYZ Strip Mall, owned and operated a small strip mall in Southern Miami-Dade County. The strip mall was only operating for a few years and was only supposed to be open in the daytime hours. Its tenant list included a dental office, a preschool, and other low-crime-risk businesses. As a result, there was very little prior crime on-premises.
In 2019 the strip mall leased a storefront to Defendant ABC Banquet Hall to operate a daytime banquet hall at the premises. Late night hours, loud music, service of alcohol, and public events we’re all banned by the lease. At the time of entry into the lease, the strip mall did not perform due diligence into the background of the tenant. A basic Google search would have shown that the Banquet Hall threw late-night hookah and alcohol parties which were open to the public and they operated as a non-licensed, unregulated nightclub.
The innocent victim was standing in line when a shotgun-sprayed machine gun fired at the establishment and killed him. A lawsuit was filed against the strip mall and banquet hall on behalf of the decedent’s minor child.
