The woman was taken to the hotel after getting drunk, after which the woman died of alcohol poisoning, and the hotel where she stayed was also sued by the woman's family, saying that the hotel did not register and check the identity of the drunk woman, allowing others to carry the woman into the room.
The incident occurred in Ma On Shan, on the evening of August 31, 2020, the woman and her friends went to the skewer shop to drink and eat a late-night snack, at first drinking beer, and then someone took out liquor to drink with the woman.
After the woman was drunk, Guan used her IDENTITY card to open a room at the local hotel and carried the woman into the room by others. However, at 5 a.m. the next day, Guan found that the woman had vomit in her mouth, her lips were purple, and she died after rescue was ineffective. The woman was identified as having died of acute ethanol poisoning.
The woman's family sued guan and 6 other people and the hotel, demanding compensation of more than 1 million yuan. The court held that the hotel failed to fulfill its security obligations and did not check its identity, and should bear the liability for infringement compensation. (Source Anhui Business Daily)
【@Dharma Eye】
From a common sense point of view, the woman's death was caused by alcohol poisoning, not the hotel, and there was no causal relationship.
However, the court held that she had failed to fulfill her duty of safety and security, and ordered her to compensate the woman for more than 90,000 yuan, which can be described as a disaster of innocence.
The Provisions of the Tort Liability Law stipulate that managers of public places such as hotels, shopping malls, banks, stations, entertainment venues, or organizers of mass activities who fail to fulfill their obligations to ensure safety and cause harm to others shall bear tort liability.
Therefore, from a legal point of view, the hotel has the obligation to ensure the safety of consumers' personal and property, and the hotel has indeed failed to carry out identity checks on the woman, and has not fulfilled its due legal obligations, and should bear the corresponding compensation liability.
The case also reminds all business entities that they should carry out business activities in accordance with the requirements of the law and fulfill their duty of care, not only for the personal and property safety of consumers, but also for the protection of their own rights and interests without any harm!
