Do you really think the guy said, "I need the room next to Andrews because I plan on sneaking in undetected" or did he say something like "Is room 'xyz' available? I really like the view there."
I'm not sure what was said I haven't kept up with this lame case - if she were hot maybe.
But the point is that if he requested a room by a specific woman, used her name, used her description, etc. - then this should have put the hotel on notice that this could put her in danger in some form or fashion based on what a prudent person would do in the same or similar circumstance.
Also, in this case the hotel is an innkeeper - meaning that they owe people an even greater duty of care to safeguard them. And basic property laws don't allow landlords to give out information of tenants and hotels are no different (he would only know her hotel room number after either asking the hotel or somehow getting access inside the hotel and seeing her enter the room, either way they should not give a person access or information) so they shouldn't have given into his request that he have a room by "the blonde woman" or "erin andrews - cause I'm a fan."
We should not have a system where 55million dollars is awarded to any single person. Wonder how much the lawyers made on that
I disagree. We have this justice system so we deter behavior by individuals that do wrong. Now this hotel and every other hotel will know that they better not screw up and put a pervert that requests to be next to a room that has a specific individual in that room. This time it was a woman - next time it could be an underage innocent girl.
If the court doesn't award punitive damages then behavior would not be dettered and people would act like BLM protestors and do things without caring about the consequences.