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Louisiana’s Leading Premises Liability Attorneys

The injury attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault have protected Louisiana families injured or harmed at dangerous properties for over 40 years. Our Louisiana trial attorneys have the experience and expertise necessary for holding negligent property owners and businesses accountable when a dangerous condition leads to unthinkable harm. From slips and falls to negligent security or the assault of a loved one, we hold property owners and businesses accountable when negligence leads to severe injury.

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Our Louisiana Premises Injury Attorneys Hold Businesses and Property Owners Accountable When Negligence Destroys Louisiana Lives

From severe injuries caused by dangerous property defects, to assaults and deaths caused by negligent or absent security, we make Louisiana’s negligent landlords, businesses, and facilities pay for preventable tragedies. Call us immediately to level the playing field and deliver the recovery you deserve.

Representing victims injured by negligent owners and Dangerous Properties in Louisiana since 1983.

Alexandria Slip & Fall Attorneys- Representing Injured Victims from Slips and Falls Across Louisiana for Over 40 Years.

In Louisiana, cases involving injury from a slip, trip, and fall are also known as premises liability cases. Injuries can occur when a Louisiana property owner or manager has been negligent in the maintenance, upkeep, or repair of property. These properties include our restaurants, malls, supermarkets, hotels, and apartments. The injury attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault have the experience you need to recover the compensation you deserve if you or a loved one has sustained a serious injury during a slip and fall.

Injuries Caused by Failure to Maintain Louisiana Properties

Slip and fall accidents or trip and fall accidents can occur at countless locations, including retail stores, restrooms, office buildings, banks, malls, construction sites, nursing homes, parking lots, casinos, and grocery stores.

Louisiana building codes and safety standards are established to protect the public in those spaces. If any of the above areas are particularly dangerous, they should be equipped with proper warning signs or closed to public traffic altogether. In addition, all walkways and floors should be safe and free from slipping and tripping hazards. When safety standards are not upheld, visitors, workers, or guests are in danger.

The injury attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault have helped many Louisiana families who have been injured due to negligent property maintenance. You must have an attorney immediately review your case, so that supporting evidence can be gathered and preserved before it is cleaned up or disappears.

Slip And Fall Statistics Show Louisiana’s Elderly Are Most Vulnerable to Injury

In Louisiana, our elderly population is especially prone to falls, and trip hazards pose an even higher danger for our older loved ones. We hold businesses accountable when their safety failures cause serious injury to our elders.

Every year in the United States, one in three people over 65 will experience a fall, and more than 15,000 people aged 65 or older die as a result of a fall in one recent year.

Consider these statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):

  • 1 in 3 adults aged 65 and older suffer a slip and fall each year.
  • One in three adults aged 65 and older falls each year.
  • Nearly one in three of those adults will have severe injuries that affect their ability to live independently. The falls may also increase the likelihood of an early death.
  • Older adults are hospitalized for fall-related injuries five times more often than they are for injuries from other causes. Older adults are hospitalized for fall-related injuries five times more often than they are for injuries from other causes.
  • ER departments treat about 2.5 million fall injuries among older adults each year, and about one-third of those patients are admitted to the hospital for treatment. ER departments treat about 2.5 million fall injuries among older adults each year, and about one-third of those patients are admitted to the hospital for treatment.

Types Of Injuries After a Slip and Fall

This leading cause of injury in adults aged 65 and older results in $35 billion in direct medical costs.

The CDC reports these kinds of injuries among senior patients who have fallen:

  • About three-fourths of fall deaths were caused by brain injuries and injuries to the lower extremities. About three-fourths of fall deaths were caused by brain injuries and injuries to the lower extremities.
  • Fractures were the most common injuries and accounted for about 61 percent of the total treatment costs.
  • Hip fractures were the most serious and costly fall-related fracture and are more prevalent injuries in our older loved ones. Hip fractures are also the most expensive fall-related fracture in terms of medical costs.

What To Do After a Slip and Fall

If you are injured in a slip or trip and fall accident in Louisiana, take the following steps:

  • Don’t make statements, especially to insurance adjusters.
  • Get the names of property owners and managers.
  • Get the names of any witnesses present during the accident.
  • Take photographs of the area where you were injured.
  • Seek immediate medical attention for your injuries.
  • Keep any clothing and footwear you were wearing at the time of the accident.
  • Document your recollection of how the injury occurred.

How Our Alexandria Slip and Fall Injury Attorneys Can Help You

You may have severe injuries and mounting medical bills after a fall at a Louisiana property or business. Neblett, Beard & Arsenault can help guide you through this process and deliver the recovery you deserve. We have experience showing the merchant or property owner knew, or should have known with reasonable inspection, of the hazardous condition before the accident. Our experienced Louisiana injury attorneys handle your case from start to finish:

  • We explain every step of the process in simple terms.
  • We immediately investigate the property, conduct interviews, and gather crucial evidence for your claim.
  • We keep you informed as your claim moves forward.
  • We use our experience to negotiate with insurance companies who try to diminish your recovery.
  • We fight for compensation to cover your medical costs, medication, and lost earnings due to your injuries.
  • We have over four decades of experience taking these cases to trial and holding Louisiana companies accountable when they refuse to give our injured clients the compensation they deserve.

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Neblett, Beard & Arsenault’s Dedicated Injury Attorneys have represented injured victims in slips, trips, and falls in cities across Louisiana for over 40 years: Alexandria, Pineville, Marksville, Colfax, Pollock, Jena, Natchitoches, Many, Zwolle, Oberlin, Oakdale, DeRidder, Kinder, Jonesville, Vidalia, Ferriday, Opelousas, Shreveport, Monroe, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and all surrounding towns and communities in between.

Louisiana Sexual Assault Injury Lawyers – Compassionate Legal Advocates Fighting for Survivors of Sexual Assault Throughout Louisiana

When preventable security failures at Louisiana apartments, hotels, or businesses enable the unthinkable — the sexual assault, trafficking, or physical abuse of you or a loved one—you need legal advocates who understand your trauma and who have the expertise necessary to fight for your rights and recovery from these unthinkable events.

Neblett, Beard & Arsenault’s negligent security and sexual injury attorneys have spent over 40 years in Central Louisiana and across the state holding property and business owners accountable when their negligence allows predators to harm innocent victims. We can advocate for the justice and compensation you deserve, while protecting your privacy and dignity throughout litigation and your recovery process.

Why Sexual Assault Survivors Choose The Legal Advocates at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault

Unlike firms that focus only on vehicle accidents, we have dedicated injury attorneys with experience advocating and pursuing justice for survivors of sexual violence and assaults against the property owners, businesses, or employers who enabled these devastating and personal crimes. Our attorneys have the experience to handle serious cases involving personal trauma, including:

  • Apartment Complex Assaults: Broken gates, failed lighting, ignored complaints
  • Hotel/Motel Attacks: Inadequate locks, untrained staff, known dangers
  • Workplace Sexual Violence: Employer/Supervisor negligence, inadequate supervision
  • Minor Trafficking Cases: Hotels and properties facilitating abuse by ignoring known warning signs
  • School/Daycare/Boarding Home Abuse: Institutional failures to protect our vulnerable children
  • Parking Lot Attacks: Poor lighting, no security presence, hidden areas

Understanding Premises Liability for Sexual Assault in Louisiana

Property Owners’ Legal Duty to Prevent Foreseeable Crimes

Louisiana law requires property owners to maintain security that is reasonable under the circumstances when criminal activity is foreseeable. This means apartments, hotels, businesses, and other properties must take appropriate measures to protect visitors from preventable sexual violence. Our premises liability attorneys hold these individuals and companies accountable when their failure to do so leads to a sexual assault or violence against you or a loved one.

Key Legal Elements We Prove:

  1. Foreseeability: Prior crimes, obvious security risks, and conditions that allowed the assault to take place
  2. Negligence: Failure to implement reasonable security measures
  3. Causation: Failure to implement reasonable measures enabled the assault
  4. Damages: Physical, emotional, and financial harm—often on a long-term and painful road to recovery.

Negligent Security Failures That Enable Sexual Assault at Louisiana Properties and Businesses:

  • Broken or inadequate lighting in parking lots
  • Failed access control (broken gates, open doors, failure to identify suspicious individuals)
  • No security cameras in common or frequently trafficked areas
  • Inadequate background checks on employees who commit assaults
  • Ignoring tenant complaints about safety
  • Failing to take steps to secure the premises in response to crime in the area
  • Understaffed or untrained security, and failure to supervise security guards
  • Overgrown landscaping creates hiding spots

Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Cases

Hotels and Motels Facilitating Trafficking

Louisiana is well-known for its tourism and hospitality industry. Unfortunately, hotels, motels, and other businesses can turn a blind eye to obvious trafficking signs, failing to protect vulnerable victims:

Red Flags of Sexual Trafficking Businesses Ignore:

  • Frequent one-day or short-term reservations and rentals
  • Excessive foot traffic to rooms or numerous visits by different unrelated individuals
  • Underage individuals with older adults
  • Requests for isolated rooms
  • Refusal of housekeeping services
  • Visual signs of control, coercion, physical abuse, and apprehension

Our Dedicated Approach to Trafficking Cases:

  • Investigate the property or business’s knowledge of criminal activity
  • Document patterns of willful blindness and failures to train staff on warning signs
  • Coordinate and work directly with law enforcement
  • Protect the Survivor’s privacy and dignity throughout
  • Pursue maximum damages for physical, emotional, and mental trauma

Employer-Perpetuated or Facilitated Abuse

Businesses must be held accountable if an employee’s boss or supervisor commits an assault or uses a position of influence or financial coercion to commit a heinous act against an employee.

Louisiana employers and businesses can negligently create work environments that enable sexual assaults:

  • Isolated or remote work locations without oversight
  • Failure to document, fully investigate, and report complaints
  • Protecting certain employees in positions of power over vulnerable and exploited victims
  • Inadequate supervision of minor employees
  • After-hours access without proper security

Cases Involving Minor Victims

Special Protections for Adult Survivors of Minor Child Sexual Abuse

When properties, businesses, religious or educational institutions fail to protect minor children from sexual predators, Louisiana law provides the enhanced remedies necessary to seek justice against the at-fault parties for these heinous acts.

In June 2024, the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed a prior decision that found unconstitutional an extended time within which to bring a claim, or prescription, for cases involving the sexual assault or abuse of a minor. Currently, under Louisiana Act 386, all adult survivors of sexual abuse that occurred when they were minors have an extended window, or “look-back” prescription period until June 14, 2027, within which to file suit against the at-fault parties.

If you or a loved one were the victims of a sexual assault or abuse as a minor, our sexual injury attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault can guide you through this challenging process, take immediate action to prepare your claim, and help you secure the justice and compensation you deserve by instituting suit before this fast-approaching deadline. Contact Us today so we can act quickly to protect your rights.

Institutional Sexual Assault or Abuse of Children

The sexual abuse of a minor within an organization or institution is an unfortunate reality for many minor and adult victims. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), a sexual assault is perpetrated every 68 seconds, and every 9 minutes, that victim is a child. The CDC reports that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 20 boys are affected by some form of sexual abuse.

These despicable sexual assaults of minors often occur at a medical facility, school, church or religious function, or camp due to the predator’s position of authority, allowing access to and the exploitation of the minor victim.

Examples of Institutional Sexual Abuse Cases Against Minors We Handle:

  • Educational: elementary and high schools, boarding schools, and teacher and coach assaults against students
  • Religious: Assaults by religious leaders, at churches, retreats, and camps
  • Organizations: Youth organizations, summer camps, and childcare facilities
  • State/Healthcare: Medical facilities, treatment centers, foster care

In Louisiana, certain institutions such as schools and daycares have heightened duties to protect our children:

  • Immediate response and clear reporting protocols
  • Adequate teacher/supervision ratios with children and students
  • Proper background and hiring procedures for teachers and staff
  • Prevention, awareness, and response training for employees

These are highly complex and sensitive matters that require experience, detail, and tenacity to investigate and prepare. Our sexual injury attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault understand the unique aspects of sexual assault cases involving minors:

  • Privacy protection needs throughout litigation
  • Coordination with criminal proceedings and law enforcement
  • Mandatory reporting compliance
  • Trauma-informed representation and resources for physical, mental, and emotional trauma

And our sexual injury attorneys know the long-term consequences of these devastating and violative acts:

Immediate Trauma

  • Physical injuries requiring treatment
  • Emergency medical examinations
  • STI testing and treatment
  • Pregnancy prevention
  • Evidence collection

Long-Term Consequences

  • PTSD: Flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance
  • Depression/Anxiety: Often requiring lifetime treatment
  • Trust Issues: Affecting all relationships
  • Substance Abuse: Self-medication of trauma
  • Educational/Career Impact: Derailed life plans

Hidden Costs Survivors Face

  • Ongoing therapy and psychiatric care
  • Lost wages from trauma
  • Support group participation
  • Specialized trauma treatment

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Sexual Assaults and Premises Liability

Can I sue if the criminal wasn’t caught or convicted?

Yes. Civil cases have different standards from criminal cases. We can prove liability even without a criminal conviction by showing the property, business, institution, or employer’s negligence, which enabled or facilitated the assault or abuse.

How long do I have to file a claim in Louisiana?

In Louisiana, generally two years from the assault, but exceptions exist for certain instances of trafficking and with circumstances involving concealment, for minors, and for adults who were assaulted as minors. Contact us immediately to preserve your rights – waiting can hurt your chances of full recovery, and there are limited windows available in some instances to file suit for assaults occurring even in the distant past.

Will I or my children have to face the attacker in court?

Not necessarily. Premises liability cases focus on the property owner’s negligence, not the criminal trial. And we have experience bringing minor assault claims against institutions, which often do not directly involve the individual perpetrator. We frequently resolve cases without you having to face the perpetrator.

What if I was drinking or my memory is unclear?

These factors don’t prevent recovery. We have experience combating these shameless victim-blaming tactics. We keep the focus on their negligence and fault, not victim behavior.

Can I remain anonymous during the case?

We utilize every available legal protection to maintain privacy, including pseudonyms in pleadings, sealed and redacted documents, and protective orders from courts, especially in cases of minor abuse. Your privacy and dignity are paramount.

What if the assault happened at work?

Workplace assaults may involve both premises liability and employer negligence claims. Workers’ compensation doesn’t prevent third-party claims against property owners or your business or employer for intentional assaults.

Standing with sexual assault survivors throughout Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and beyond with attorneys ready to meet you in person or over the phone: Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Shreveport. We handle cases throughout Central Louisiana, including Rapides, Avoyelles, Vernon, Grant, and Natchitoches parishes. Our attorneys are licensed in Mississippi and Texas and are ready to assist injured victims in and around the Gulf South.

Complete confidentiality and compassionate representation for survivors of: Apartment complex assaults, hotel trafficking, workplace sexual violence, school abuse, parking lot attacks, and any location where negligent security enabled preventable harm.

Louisiana Negligent Security Lawyers | Experienced Premises Liability Attorneys Fighting for Victims of Crime and Violence due to Inadequate Security throughout Central Louisiana and Statewide

The negligent security attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault have fought for the rights of victims of criminal attacks at Louisiana apartments, businesses, parking lots, and hotels for over 40 years. We have tenaciously represented Louisiana families injured by attacks, assaults, robberies, and gun violence against the property and business owners whose failure to provide safe premises enabled and facilitated the perpetrator. We hold landlords and businesses accountable when their inadequate security results in crimes and injuries to our Louisiana clients, and we have secured justice and compensation for those victims.

Why Victims of Crime and Violence Choose Our Alexandria Law Firm to Pursue Properties and Businesses Responsible for Negligent Security

Unlike firms that only handle car accidents, we have decades of experience and have dedicated substantial resources to pursuing inadequate security cases against property owners and even Fortune 500 companies whose failures to protect guests, residents, and visitors enable criminal attacks:

  • Hotel/Motel Crimes: Inadequate locks, poor lighting, criminal activity known and tolerated, lack of access controls, and guest policies
  • Apartment Complex Assaults: Broken gates, failed lighting, known and complained-of dangers ignored
  • Parking Lot Attacks: Malls, restaurants, retail shopping, and business parking areas
  • Gas Station and Convenience Store Robberies: Late-night security failures, poor visibility
  • Bar/Nightclub Violence: Inadequate bouncers, overcrowding, failure to weapon screen
  • Workplace Violence: Employer security negligence, mandatory after-hours work without proper supervision, and security

Understanding Negligent Security Law in Louisiana

Property Owners’ and Businesses’ Legal Duty to Protect Louisiana Patrons

Louisiana law requires property owners to provide reasonable security when criminal activity is foreseeable. This means hotels, motels, shopping centers, restaurants, and other Louisiana businesses must take steps to prevent crimes they know or should know might occur. And they must take adequate steps to protect the guests, patrons, and visitors to their businesses.

Under Louisiana law, some hospitality businesses, such as hotels, have a heightened duty to protect patrons. This “innkeeper” duty for guests is similar to that of a common carrier towards its paying passengers—a hotel/motel guest is entitled to a high degree of care and protection, and the innkeeper, or hotel operator, must take precautions against criminals. Our injury attorneys have experience holding these businesses and hotels accountable when they fail to do so, and their failure leads to crimes against guests and injuries.

Key Legal Elements We Prove:

  1. Foreseeability: Prior crimes, obvious risks, or failures to institute reasonable protections made the attack and crime predictable
  2. Breach of Duty: Failed to provide reasonable security measures and follow proper protocols and procedures
  3. Causation: Security failures or inadequate security enabled the criminal attack
  4. Damages: Physical injuries, including wrongful death, emotional and mental trauma, and financial losses

We have also pursued punitive damages against out-of-state companies that manage or own businesses in Louisiana and show reckless disregard for the well-being of Louisiana families by cutting security budgets to prioritize profits over safety.

When property owners face no consequences for inadequate security that results in injuries to Louisiana residents, crimes continue, and violence gets worse. Many business owners calculate that paying the occasional settlement costs less than proper security. Our negligent security attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault make sure their calculations are wrong.

What Makes Crime “Foreseeable” in cases of negligent or inadequate security at Louisiana businesses, apartments, and social events?

Prior Criminal Activity:

  • Previous assaults or crimes at the property; rising rates of crime in the area
  • Police reports showing patterns of criminal activity, including the prevalence of violent crimes
  • 911 calls documenting dangers
  • Tenant complaints ignored
  • Crime statistics for the area

Environmental Factors:

  • High-crime location
  • Cash businesses that attract criminal activity without taking proper security precautions
  • Late-night operations without adequate security staffing
  • Isolated or hidden areas, including parking lots, stairwells, and walkways, left unsupervised

Business/Hotel/Landlord Failures

  • Broken gates/locks staying unfixed for months; lighting out creating dark attack zones
  • No background checks on employees and staff; no tenant screening process; master keys uncontrolled
  • Security staff reduced, removed, or never hired to save money; Security and staff untrained on crime prevention, risk reduction, and response to emergencies
  • Blind spots in camera coverage or no working CCTV; guards not patrolling or absent from high-traffic areas
  • Room doors with broken locks; no keycard access control or guest identification; unmonitored entrances
  • Inadequate staffing to control altercations; overcrowding; overserving alcohol

Common Types of Crimes from Negligent Security in Louisiana

Violent Assaults

  • Shootings at events, apartment complexes, and large public gatherings and concerts
  • Stabbings in bar parking lots
  • Beatings during robberies on property
  • Sexual assaults in hotels and motels
  • Carjackings at shopping centers and malls

Wrongful Death Cases Involving Negligent or Inadequate Security

  • Shooting deaths from third-party gun violence; failure to properly screen for weapons at events
  • Fatal beatings and assaults
  • Robbery murders at stores and shopping centers
  • Security guard failures allow crime and attacks to continue without interruption

Real Cases, Real Impact on Louisiana Families. You Need Real Expertise:

Negligent or inadequate security cases are evidence-intensive and take a carefully pursued strategy to pursue against the businesses, properties, landlords, and hotels whose security failures led to you or a loved one being injured during an act of violence or the commission of a crime.

Our negligent security attorneys at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault know how to build your case, hold the businesses responsible for failure to adequately protect guests and patrons, and ensure you receive full compensation for your physical, mental, and emotional injuries.

We have pursued justice for Louisiana families from start to trial, and retain the expert security consultants, crime prevention specialists, and crime statisticians necessary to hold large companies accountable for their security failures that result in tragedy.

We have experience combating the typical defenses of businesses and property owners in negligent security cases:

  • “Criminals are solely responsible.”
  • “We can’t prevent crime.”
  • “Security is expensive.”
  • “Crime wasn’t foreseeable.”
  • “The Victim was careless.”

Get Justice for Preventable Crimes Enabled by Negligent or Inadequate Security

Your case can force changes that protect future victims. And you and your loved ones deserve to be compensated for the preventable crime that led to your injuries or the death of a loved one. We have helped thousands of injured victims over the last 40+ years, and we will stand by your side during this difficult time.

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Neblett, Beard & Arsenault has been holding property owners and businesses accountable for their negligence resulting in injuries, harm, and abuse to Louisiana families. You may have lost a loved one, or still be recovering from an attack or crime that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen. Let our experienced attorneys prove that the at-fault business or property owner’s failures enabled your attacker and fight for the compensation you need.

Frequently Asked Questions – Louisiana Negligent or Inadequate Security

Can I sue if the criminal wasn’t caught?

Yes. Your civil case is against the property or business owner for inadequate security, not the criminal. We prove that the at-fault property or business’s negligence enabled the crime, regardless of whether the attacker was arrested.

What if I were a crime victim at my apartment?

Tenants can absolutely sue landlords for security failures that lead to their injuries, or a loved one’s death. Paying rent entitles you to safety measures and protections.

What if the property had some security?

Having some security doesn’t mean it was adequate security under the circumstances. We have experience proving whether the security on the property or at the business met industry standards, was reasonable in number given the surrounding crime risk, and whether the guards were adequately trained, equipped, and followed protocols and procedures.

Can I afford to fight a big company?

Yes. Our clients have hired us to take on even the largest Fortune 500 companies, and we have the resources to fight these cases. We have a long track record of overwhelming success getting injured victims the compensation they deserve. We work on contingency – that means no fee unless we win. We advance all costs, including expensive but necessary experts. Let us do what we do best—fight these at-fault companies and property owners so you can focus on recovering from your trauma and injuries.

How long do I have to file in Louisiana?

Generally, two years from the crime, but exceptions do exist. Contact us immediately so that we can act quickly to investigate, preserve necessary evidence, and take steps to timely preserve your legal rights. Delays hurt cases and can even prevent the compensation you deserve.

Will this affect the criminal case?

Civil and criminal cases are separate. However, we have worked hand in hand with local authorities and prosecutors to ensure thorough investigation, operate as your liaison with authorities for your ongoing criminal proceedings, and make sure justice is served for all at-fault parties—both the criminal perpetrator and the businesses that enabled their crimes through inadequate security.

Serving victims of crime throughout Louisiana: Alexandria, Marksville, Pineville, Shreveport, Ruston, Monroe, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and all communities along the I-49, I-20, and I-10 corridors. We have also represented victims and their families from out-of-state who have been the victims of violent crimes while visiting Louisiana businesses, properties, and hotels caused by negligent or inadequate security. We can pursue justice for you here while you return home to heal, and we work directly with our trusted out-of-state partners, experts, investigators, and agencies from nearly every state in the US.

We’ve handled negligent security cases against: Apartment complexes, hotels and motels, shopping centers, gas stations, convenience stores, bars and nightclubs, parking garages, and commercial properties and businesses throughout Louisiana where inadequate security enabled preventable crimes.

Louisiana Large Event Injury Lawyers 

Here in Louisiana, we know how to host big events. It may be at a Saints game, a concert, or a Mardi Gras festival. Don’t forget about our college football and other large sporting events that we love to attend. When we attend those big events, we’re certainly looking to enjoy ourselves with the crowd, but we also have the reasonable expectation that we will be safe there. We trust the organization holding the event because of the licenses they hold from the local government, and with the understanding that a lack of protection can result in lower attendance in the future, which could harm profits. Organizations do have a responsibility to protect and ensure the safety of the event participants. When they neglect that responsibility, victims of injuries may have grounds to bring legal action, and the event organizers should be held responsible.

Ways People Can Get Injured at Large Events, Festivals & Concerts

Wherever there are crowds, there is a certain level of danger. Event organizers must take precautions to protect attendees. In some cases, tents, stages, and ramps are improperly installed. Attendees can be hurt by this equipment collapsing or by a platform breaking under their feet. This can lead to broken bones, head injuries, or other disasters, which can have lifelong consequences.

Sometimes, people may even be injured by other event attendees, which may occur due to insufficient security presence or poor crowd control. Overcrowding can even lead to trampling and suffocation. Organizations should foresee reasonable potential risks and plan accordingly. One such tragic event was the Pearl Jam concert, where moshing by the large crowd ended up killing nine and injuring many others.

Common instances of severe injuries and fatalities at crowded events, festivals, and concerts include:

  • Crowd crushes and trampling injuries
  • Physical and sexual assaults due to security failures
  • Equipment failures and collapses
  • Fires and burns, including pyrotechnic accidents

Contributing factors to severe injuries and fatalities at large gatherings in Louisiana include:

  • Overselling tickets
  • Inadequate staffing and security
  • Poor crowd control
  • Alcohol overservice
  • Failure to cancel in dangerous weather

When Security Failures and Event Organizer Negligence Enable Mass Shootings at Louisiana Events

From outdoor festivals to packed venues, Louisiana event organizers must provide reasonable security measures against foreseeable violent threats. When venues ignore credible risks, fail to screen for weapons, provide inadequate security staffing, or lack emergency response protocols, preventable mass shootings devastate Louisiana families. Our premises liability attorneys have spent 40 years proving how negligent security enables these tragedies – from inadequate metal detectors at concert venues to missing security at festival entrances, from untrained staff at sporting events to bars that overserve and ignore warning signs.

While we cannot undo these horrific acts, we hold venue owners, event organizers, and security companies accountable for choosing profits over patron safety, forcing industry-wide changes that protect future Louisiana eventgoers from preventable violence.

The Importance of Lighting at Large Events

Many popular events take place at night, so good lighting is vital. If attendees cannot see where they are walking, they risk tripping or colliding with obstacles. Dark stairways are especially treacherous. The large number of people exacerbates the problem, as individuals could be pushed off higher elevations at the venue without warning. Insufficient lighting also increases the risks of overcrowding or even violence, as people may be unable to find their way out of dangerously tight spots. Fights are more likely to break out under the cover of darkness. Good lighting is a simple way to increase everyone’s level of safety, and organizations that fail to provide it may, in some cases, be considered liable for personal injuries sustained at an event.

Severe Injuries During Sporting Events

Ball Park Personal InjuriesUnfortunately, we have a long history of public event injuries. Some sports spectators have tried to sue teams for injuries sustained by flying balls, bats, and pucks. Most teams have an “enter at your own risk” policy and have thus avoided liability. Most sporting events will constantly warn fans to pay attention and will remind them that objects will be flying at high speeds. They do this not only to protect the fans but to protect them legally.

In 1998, Jane Costa sued the Boston Red Sox after a 90 mph foul ball hit her. Her case was unsuccessful, but legal experts believe that the trend may be shifting, and that sports teams may be increasingly expected to shoulder more responsibility for the protection of fans. After all, fans cannot possibly be constantly vigilant for flying equipment, nor can they prevent crowd-related injuries the way the supervising organization can.

In 2014, a jury awarded $18 million to Brian Stow, a Giants fan who was brutally beaten at a Dodgers baseball game in 2011. Even though the assailants were identified and charged, the Dodgers shared a portion of the liability. They were deemed to have provided inadequate security, which led to unsafe conditions. Stow’s attorneys showed that his assailants should have been thrown out long before the attack occurred, that the security force was understaffed and underprepared, and that poor lighting made rowdy fans more likely to start fights. Stow was not in any way to blame for the attack he suffered.

The organizations that host the events around our beautiful state of Louisiana hold a reasonable responsibility to protect their audience. It’s a part of the risk of their industry.

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Louisiana Nursing Home and Elder Abuse Lawyers – Fighting for Your Abused, Neglected, and Injured Loved Ones in Louisiana’s Care Facilities

Choosing a care facility for loved ones as they age is always a difficult decision. When elders are no longer able to care for themselves, families must find a solution to make sure they receive the attention and medical care they need. For many, the answer is a nursing home. At their best, nursing homes provide their residents with a balance of care and dignity, and treat them with the kindness, compassion, and respect they deserve.

Sometimes, unfortunately, nursing home professionals are neglectful and even abusive of residents. As a family member, it’s extremely painful to find out that a loved one has been neglected or abused in a nursing home. Your trust has been violated, and a loved one has been harmed.

The Importance of Hiring Experienced Louisiana Nursing Home Attorneys for Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Injury to Your Loved One

These days, even in Louisiana, many care facilities are for-profit institutions run by national corporations. Neglect, abuse, and injuries may occur when your loved one’s safety, health, and well-being take a back seat to profit. If you suspect a spouse or parent is being neglected, abused, mistreated, or injured in a Louisiana nursing home or care facility, you need an experienced Louisiana attorney on your side to act immediately to stop the abuse and secure the compensation your family deserves.

At Neblett, Beard and Arsenault, our Central Louisiana injury attorneys have experience litigating nursing home abuse and neglect against Louisiana care facilities and medical providers across the state, and we work relentlessly to secure justice on behalf of your loved one. We take immediate action to thoroughly investigate the nursing home abuse or neglect, including all injuries sustained, and we work quickly to determine which parties can be held liable for negligent acts. We have represented the most vulnerable clients across Louisiana for over four decades.

Taking legal action for a loved one can help stop the abuse and neglect. Family members who don’t act will oftentimes notice that the abuse doesn’t go away or, worse, your loved one is further neglected or retaliated against. We have attorneys at our firm with prior nursing experience at major facilities, and attorneys who have litigated these injury/abuse cases for decades in Louisiana.

Our lawyers not only care that your spouse, parent, or grandparents receive compensation, but we work tenaciously to stand up for vulnerable victims and defend the rights of those abused, neglected, or injured by negligence. Nursing homes and care facilities are trusted to care for the most vulnerable among us. If that trust is broken, let our Louisiana nursing home injury attorneys help stop the wrongful conduct.

The Many Forms of Elder Abuse

Elders make up a particularly vulnerable population in Louisiana. Many have physical or mental disabilities, and some feel too isolated to advocate for themselves. Some do not have the ability or means to advocate for themselves. Generally, elder abuse in Louisiana is any action by someone against an individual aged 60 or older that physically harms, creates a serious risk of harm to, emotionally abuses, or medically neglects the elder. Instances of abuse and neglect against elders can occur in a Louisiana licensed nursing home and long-term care facilities for several reasons, including resentment and retaliation.

Abusive behaviors include (but are not limited to):

  • Physical Abuse: hitting, beating elderly residents, inappropriate physical restraints, force feeding, and physical punishment of any kind.
  • Sexual Abuse: Any nonconsensual sexual contact with an elder is unacceptable. Any suspicion of sexual contact whatsoever with an elder by an employee of a Louisiana care facility, or an at-home caregiver, needs to be investigated immediately.
  • Emotional, Psychological, and Verbal Abuse: Common forms of abuse. Though often subtle, this common form of abuse is just as harmful as the others. Any intentional infliction of anguish or emotional pain is abusive. This may include verbal assaults, humiliation, threats, isolation, the “silent treatment,” and harassment.
  • Financial Exploitation: Particularly with nursing home residents who suffer from reduced mental faculties. Elders are more vulnerable to manipulation by care professionals due to a position of dependence. Examples include cashing checks without permission, forging signatures, taking possessions, and coercing residents into financial transactions that are not in the residents’ best interests. Since residents often have reduced mental capacities, they are vulnerable to manipulation by nursing care professionals, who may cash checks without permission, forge signatures, steal possessions, or coerce residents into financial transactions that are not in the residents’ best interests.
  • Neglect: Failing obligations to provide essentials to elderly residents—proper shelter, proper nutrition, adequate hydration, safe and sanitary living conditions, and the proper medical treatment and care for injury. It is neglectful to deprive elders of these necessities. Louisiana has ranked near or at the bottom for quality care at nursing homes, particularly regarding bed sores and use of physical restraints.
  • Abandonment: Deserting an elder either within the facility itself or in another location. Dangerous for Louisiana elders who suffer from Alzheimer’s or other cognitive diseases, who may come to harm, wander off, or become confused or agitated when a lack of proper supervision occurs.

Symptoms Of Abuse at Nursing Homes and Care Facilities

An elder’s report of abuse and neglect must be taken seriously. If a resident reports mistreatment at a nursing home, the employees at the facility must take action immediately. Protocols and procedures mandate reporting the abuse to facility management and authorities, and taking proper steps to notify family and caregivers.

Important signs in your elder loved ones that may indicate serious issues, abuse, or neglect:

  • Bruises, open wounds, or signs of having been restrained
  • Emotional distress
  • Acting abnormally withdrawn and uncommunicative
  • Dehydration or malnutrition, including sudden weight loss
  • Untreated health problems, including bedsores
  • Poor personal hygiene
  • Sudden withdrawals from a bank account or unexplained transfers of funds
  • Sudden changes to a loved one’s will

If you visit your loved one in the nursing care home, watch out for these “red-flag” conditions concerning the facility and its employees:

  • Inadequate heating or lack of running water
  • Unsanitary or dangerous conditions (soiled bedding, uncleanliness, fire hazards, etc.)
  • The unwillingness of care providers to let you see your loved one privately

If any of these things have happened to your spouse or loved one, contact our experienced Louisiana elder abuse attorneys immediately so that we may get started on your case:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)- Louisiana Nursing Home Injuries and Elderly Abuse Cases

What rights do residents of a Louisiana nursing home have?

The Louisiana Nursing Home Bill of Rights outlines 22 legally protected rights, such as civil liberties, freedom from abuse, dignified living conditions, and other protections afforded by law. If you suspect your loved one has been or is being abused or neglected, contact us.

If I suspect abuse or neglect in a licensed nursing home in Louisiana, what immediate action can I take?

Does neglect in a Louisiana nursing home ever result in a medical malpractice case?

Often that is the case. A Louisiana medical malpractice claim is more difficult to prove than neglect due to Louisiana’s strict medical review panel requirements. However, both claims may involve serious injuries to your loved one when neglect results in injury. Our experienced Louisiana injury attorneys will determine the best strategy for a case of inadequate medical attention in a Louisiana nursing home or care facility.

What kind of damages may be awarded in nursing home abuse cases in Louisiana?

Every matter is different because all facts are different, particularly with injuries, abuse, and neglect of our elderly loved ones. These cases warrant a personal, individual review by our experienced Louisiana injury attorneys so that the appropriate strategies can be developed to take action quickly. In cases of injury, abuse, and neglect, damages may be awarded such as medical expenses, costs of living associated with resulting disabilities and long-term conditions, future medical expenses and costs of care, pain and suffering, disfigurement and scarring, and in some cases, punitive damages for reprehensible conduct. Our Louisiana injury attorneys can help guide you through what compensation you or your loved one may be entitled to and help you secure the justice you deserve.

Why is abuse and neglect so common in nursing homes?

Often, nursing homes are overly profit-driven. In cutting costs, they may also violate nursing home regulations and your loved one’s rights. Overworked or under-qualified employees can also lead to neglect, as can bad management or malicious individual employees. Both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing today, Louisiana nursing homes are frequently short-staffed, leaving some residents without necessary care.

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