March 02, 2023
A woman who accused multiple Ohio hotels and several chains of facilitating sex trafficking has reached a settlement with Choice Hotels International Inc. and the operator of one of its locations.
February 03, 2023
A woman who accused multiple Ohio hotels of facilitating and financially benefiting from sex trafficking urged an Ohio federal court Friday to once again block Erie Insurance Exchange from intervening in the dispute, arguing that allowing the insurer to step in would needlessly complicate the proceedings.
May 16, 2022
Erie Insurance Exchange has again asked an Ohio judge to let it intervene in a sex trafficking suit by an anonymous accuser against multiple hotel companies, saying it has a contract with another one of the accused parties and wants to know whether it must defend the hotel.
March 03, 2022
Cincinnati Insurance Co. cannot intervene in a sex trafficking suit brought by an anonymous accuser against multiple hotel companies, an Ohio federal judge ruled Thursday, saying the insurer's interests in the suit do not warrant a right to intervene.
June 23, 2021
An anonymous accuser has dismissed United Kingdom-based InterContinental Hotels Group PLC from her sex-trafficking lawsuit against a slew of hotels in Ohio federal court as the parties hash out discovery and a trial schedule in the long-running case.
May 20, 2021
An insurer has asked an Ohio federal judge to let it intervene in a sex trafficking suit by an anonymous accuser against multiple hotel companies, saying it has a substantial legal interest in the case's outcome because it has an insurance contract with one of the accused businesses.
April 13, 2020
An Ohio federal judge on Monday denied Erie Insurance Exchange's bid to intervene in two suits claiming the operators of hotels should have known that sex trafficking took place on their premises, ruling it doesn't have the right to intervene to protect its interests.
October 08, 2019
The operators of six hotels must face a lawsuit from a sex trafficking survivor who alleges they should have known she was being victimized at their lodgings, an Ohio federal judge ruled, saying the survivor has shown enough to allege the hotels benefited financially from the trafficking.