{"id":16517,"date":"2023-08-30T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/?p=16517"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:11:13","slug":"napoli-shkolnik-wins-case-of-negligence-against-sixty-lower-east-side-llc-sixty-hotels-llc-and-sixty-hotel-manager-llc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/article\/napoli-shkolnik-wins-case-of-negligence-against-sixty-lower-east-side-llc-sixty-hotels-llc-and-sixty-hotel-manager-llc\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli Shkolnik Wins Case of Negligence Against Sixty Lower East Side, LLC, Sixty Hotels, LLC and Sixty Hotel Manager, LLC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Plaintiff was Sexually Assaulted by Massage Therapist Provided by Luxury Hotel While Guest at 60 Lower East Side in 2018<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Napoli Shkolnik has won a verdict of negligence against defendants Sixty Lower East Side, LLC; Sixty Hotels, LLC; and Sixty Hotel Manager, LLC (collectively, \u201cdefendants\u201d), on behalf of the plaintiff, who filed the negligence action seeking damages for the physical and emotional injuries she suffered as a result of the assault by a massage therapist provided by Sixty LES hotel while she was a guest in 2018. The Plaintiff subsequently reported the assault to the police and the hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the plaintiff\u2019s in-room massage appointment at the hotel, the alleged assailant was not registered or otherwise authorized to practice massage therapy in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the discovery phase of this lawsuit, it was determined the hotel did not conduct background checks on the massage therapists they used, allowing the independent contractor&nbsp; to provide massage services to the guest in her hotel suite without first informing her that his identity was unknown; that Sixty LES had not investigated his certifications or criminal history; falsely assured the guest that hotel spa services could be \u201csafely provided in-room\u201d; and provided him with unsupervised access to her suite to perform hotel spa services; without ensuring that reasonable and prudent policies and procedures were put into place for screening Sixty LES\u2019s in-room massage therapists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defendants also informed plaintiff that they do not possess: any documents concerning the service provider\u2019s&nbsp; \u201cbackground, criminal history, or employment history\u201d; any \u201ccontracts and agreements between him and any defendant\u201d; any communications between defendants or any of their agents and him; any records reflecting in-room massage services provided by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court will schedule the damages phase of the case in September 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff was Sexually Assaulted by Massage Therapist Provided by Luxury Hotel While Guest at 60 Lower East Side in 2018 Napoli Shkolnik has won a verdict of negligence against defendants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[774],"tags":[815,818,947,1056],"class_list":["post-16517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-napoli-shkolnik-news","tag-general-negligence","tag-sexual-harassment-lawyer","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assault"],"acf":[],"page_builder_type":"gutenberg","gutenberg_data":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}