Negligent Security Case Settled for $550k

July 30th 2024

A highly litigated case alleging negligent security, which included 2 appeals to the Appellate Division, Second Department, was settled on the eve of trial for $550,000.00. The Decedent was targeted and shot in the head when the murderer entered a high rise building “piggy backing” tenants. Attorney Todd D. Greenberg alleged a failure of the security officers to properly screen visitors. Even though it was a targeted killing, and the decedent was shot in the head and died immediately, Mr. Greenberg was able to argue that the deceased suffered pre-impact terror when, as Mr. Greenberg emphasized, the shooter stated in his confession to a NYPD Detective “so we chased him down a little bit”. The Decedents’ mother and father, our clients, were very thankful that the lack of proper security was acknowledged and for the compensation given to their son for his conscious pain and suffering in anticipation of his death as he ran approximately 12 feet from his attacker.