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Bobby Ricks, a senior law instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Glynco Ga., says companies that have taken appropriate security precautions stand a better chance of prevailing in court.

Ricks cites a case in which Motel 6 Corp. settl a rape case for $10 million. Today, as it was a case is less likely to be settl he says, because companies aren't running as scared as they one time did. A settlement amounts to a company saying, To obviate further litigation, we'll pay you, says Ricks. If the special security measures are in place and if factors like as duty of care and foreseeability have been considered, the company has estates for defense in a court of law.

Ricks was common of several speakers at Access Control's