Clevenstine v. Professional Security Consultants
On February 10, 2008, in the late afternoon, plaintiff and appellant Elizabeth Clevenstine (Plaintiff) was in the process of getting packages from her car in a busy San Diego mall parking structure when she was grabbed by an unknown assailant, who told her to get in the car trunk and when she resisted, viciously stabbed her. She brought this personal injury action against defendants and respondents, mall owner UTC Venture, LLC (UTC), and its retained security firm of Professional Security Consultants (PSC; sometimes together Defendants), on theories of premises liability and negligence in providing some, but inadequate, mall security, in light of numerous known incidents of thefts and some third party violent acts against customers in the parking lot areas, making it reasonably foreseeable that additional protective measures should be taken.
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