Isle Casino Waterloo Must Pay $1.98M to Customer Beaten for Taking Rewards Card

A jury inward Hawkeye State has awarded $1.98 one thousand thousand to a piece who was beaten at a gambling casino for stealing a rewards card, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports.

Montana Gunhus, 36, was attacked past another customer at the Caesars Entertainment-owned Isle Casino inwards Waterloo, Ioway inwards January 2021. Gunhus, of nearby Evansdale, had found a players club left hand inward a expansion slot political machine identity card that belonged to his attacker’s wife and was play with it.

The attacker, Damond Williams, reported it missing, and gambling casino staffed traced it to where Gunhus was sitting playing slots.

As security measures staff questioned the gambler, Theodore Samuel Williams assaulted him from behind, knocking him to the ground.

Over the next 25 seconds, Theodore Samuel Williams landed 15 punches and kicks on Gunhus, who suffered facial fractures and was left screen in i eye.

Security staff did naught to intervene.

‘Hands off’ to Violence

Last week, the court of justice heard from the casino’s protection expert Alan Zajic, who testified that the facility had a “hands-off” draw near to physical violence, which was non unusual for similar-sized casinos inwards the Midwest.

But Gunhus’ lawyer, Jordan River Talsma, argued the Isle had a responsibility to protect its patrons, and inward this typesetter's case it had failed to fare so.

The cassino was gambling with the public’s safety,” Talsma told the jury, as reported by the Courier. “They testament take your money, but they won’t protect you.”

The gambling casino argued that Theodore Samuel Williams was the only mortal liable for Gunhus’ injuries

“We’re not Mr. Williams. He was not employed past the casino, and he’s non a suspect inwards this case,” said Gospel According to Mark Thomas, an attorney for the Isle.

Williams is cladding felonious charges for the tone-beginning and is currently the theme of a bench stock warrant after missing a courtroom date.

Victim’s Trouble with Law

Thomas also pointed the finger's breadth at Gunhus himself for taking the card, describing him as “the induction for the entire event.”

Gunhus has been inward trouble with the law for burglary, to the highest degree of late inward July 2021, half dozen months after he was attacked. This was non disclosed inwards court.

In their verdict Monday, the panel found the Isle Casino liable for Gunhus’ injuries, awarding him $1.732 zillion in damages. That includes $32,314 for past tense medical expenses; $50,000 for past red of psyche and body; $550,000 for future tense red ink of total brain and body; $100,000 for past nuisance and woe and $1 gazillion for future tense painfulness and suffering, according to the Courier.

He was awarded an additional $45,000 for deprivation of maternal consortium, $15,000 for for each one of his terzetto children.