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Noffsinger Takes New Case Against Caesars Indiana
On September 9th, 2007, a lawyer from Evansville who filed a lawsuit in 2002 on behalf of his client against the Casino Aztar gained attention again. Injury lawyer Terry Noffsinger commented that he never dreamed that he would be the new legal face of the anti-gambling movement until he agreed to defend David N. Williams.
Noffsinger has attracted public attention for his representation of a person that has a chronic gaming addiction. At his initial meeting with Williams, Noffsinger was not completely convinced about the merits of the case. But after he researched pathological gambling, he agreed to represent Williams.
Noffsinger's critics and backers of gaming carefully observed the case. Legal analysts said if Williams wins the case, it could result in tougher sanctions on the case against the casino industry. In the end, Noffsinger was unsuccessful in defending the case but the case has opened his eyes to the parts of the gaming market's advertising strategies that he finds disturbing.
He said that his opponents have featured him as a person that only takes cases which has clients that lack personal worth. But Noffsinger is serious about his chosen profession and for his dislike for casino advertising techniques. He added that the country has a great record for looking out for the underdog.
Despite prospective clients that want to hire his services, Noffsinger did not take a case after Williams. But back in January, he met a female player named Jenny Kephart from Nashville, Tennessee. Kephart says that after receiving $1 million as an inheritance, she was drawn back in playing to the casinos where she previously gambled. Now Kephart is being sued by Caesars Indiana.
The casino, which is located in New Albany, Indiana, said that Kephart failed to pay them the $125,000 that she borrowed from the casino during her March 2006 visit to the facility.
Kephart said that Caesars Indiana made a lot of money for gaming available at her disposal for a loan even though Harrah's, which is the owner of the Ohio River casino, was one of her creditors during her bankruptcy almost four years ago.
Noffsinger said that Caesars know that she is a pathological gambler yet the casino did not do anything to help Kephart. He added that the casino failed in their duty to help out Kephart and bar her from the casino.
Indiana courts previously decided that casinos do not need to intervene on the gambling problems of their customers. Noffsinger insists that casinos should look out for their customers.
In order to win the case, Noffsinger will have to prove that the casino chose to remain ignorant of the problem. The judge in Corydon, Indiana has yet to make a decision regarding Kephart's case.
Sunday, October 07 , 2007
Brian Letendre