CASTLETON VT March 8 2018 A former Castleton University public safety officer is suing the town, saying a 2015 arrest violated his civil rights. William Duczeminski filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court, seeking a minimum of $75,000. The lawsuit asserts that an unnamed Castleton police officer arrested Duczeminski “unlawfully,” “without probable cuase (sic),” and “maliciously.” […]
NORWICH CT March 1 2018 – A former security guard is suing The William W. Backus Hospital, claiming he was forced to resign after management ignored his complaints about safety conditions. Charles Dickinson, of East Hampton, who worked for the hospital from March 2014 until June 2016, said in his lawsuit that his resignation amounts to […]
HOUSTON TX Feb 6 2018 – A Galveston County man alleges he was attacked by a security dog at a Texas City parking lot. Alejandro Arreguin Jr. filed a complaint on Jan. 10 in the Harris County District Court against Marathon Petroleum Co. LP, Allied Barton Security Services LLC and Houston K-9 Academy LLC alleging […]
Charlotte NC 27 2018 In 2017, there was a record 107,000 reported assaults against security officers which resulted in countless serious injuries that left many private officers needing long term medical care, rehabilitation and weeks without a pay check. 115 other security officers were killed on duty. Many of those injured in 2017 as in years […]
Kansas City KS Jan 19 2018 The Power & Light District again is being sued for racial discrimination after a black Shawnee man says he was verbally and physically abused there. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court comes against the backdrop of a similar pending case. Arthur Wayne Brown alleges he was at the entertainment […]
Charlotte NC January 18 2018 Security companies, security employees and customers who employed private security agencies faced more than 16, 208 lawsuits in 2017. Of the lawsuits filed, 67.6 percent were for assault, excessive use of force, unlawful restraint or claims of being injured at the hands of private security guards. Another 8.2 percent of […]
HOWELL NJ Jan 12 2018 – The family of a Belmar man who died in 2015 at a weekend music festival in Howell after being restrained by festival staff and police has settled its wrongful death lawsuit with the township. The sisters of Timothy J. Harden, 38, who died on Sept. 5, 2015, after the incident […]
COLUMBIA, Mo Jan 11 2018 – The mother of Anthony Warren’s three children is suing a Columbia Waffle House and the private security guard that shot him there on New Year’s day. Attorneys for Passion Hambright, the mother of Warren’s three minor children, filed the wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday morning. It claims the security […]
Port Arthur TX Jan 11 2018 The family of a mentally ill Port Arthur man who died while struggling with police and security guards at a hospital filed a lawsuit Wednesday, alleging his death was caused by inadequate training of officials who shocked him multiple times with a stun gun. “I want to know how he […]
Seattle WA Jan 10 2018 Seattle will pay $220,000 to two former library security guards who said a manager kissed them both and didn’t investigate a co-worker who held one of them on his lap and spanked her. The two women, as a settlement condition, had to leave their jobs at the Central Library downtown and […]