Law360, New York ( March 28, 2016, 12:48 PM EDT) -- An important legal defense available to operators of hotels in California[1] — but one which is relatively unknown to the plaintiffs bar — is the so-called "Innkeeper Statute," codified at California Civil Code sections 1859 and 1860. Basically, these sections (originally enacted in 1872 and subsequently amended) limit the liability of a hotel operator to either $1,000 or $500, in the event that a guest's personal valuables are stolen, damaged or otherwise lost while a guest at the hotel....
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