EXPERT SECURITY SOLUTIONS FOR LEGAL TEAMS AND THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
Enhancing safety, mitigating risks, and delivering trusted insights through decades of industry leadership.
EXPERT SECURITY SOLUTIONS FOR LEGAL
TEAMS AND THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
Enhancing safety, mitigating risks, and delivering trusted
insights through decades of industry leadership.
At its core, GHSS specializes in providing expert consultation in hotel security risk management, tailored to meet the needs of hotels, ownership and management groups, attorneys, insurance firms, and businesses.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Collaborating with legal teams and insurance firms to provide insights through pre-trial findings.
- Developing, reviewing, and enhancing safety and security policies and procedures.
- Conducting comprehensive hotel security risk assessments to support businesses in evaluating and improving their programs and processes and to identify areas of risk.
At its core, GHSS specializes in providing expert consultation in hotel security risk management, tailored to meet the needs of hotels, ownership and management groups, attorneys, insurance firms, and businesses.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Collaborating with legal teams and insurance firms to provide insights through pre-trial findings.
- Developing, reviewing, and enhancing safety and security policies and procedures.
- Conducting comprehensive hotel security risk assessments to support businesses in evaluating and improving their programs and processes and to identify areas of risk.
SALVATORE CACCAVALE
Seasoned Hotel Security, Safety and Forensic Liability Expert
Hospitality Fraud Risk Management: The 5% Solution
This summary paper was prepared as supporting documentation for a presentation delivered at the 2025 Hospitality Law Conference by Brad Bonnell, Principal of Hotel Security Group, and Salvatore Caccavale, Principal of GHSS. Hospitality and restauranteur executives often (mistakenly) view some losses as part of doing business and there are no controls to minimize these losses. There are, however, methodologies that will shrink these forfeitures in a hotel’s P&L statement when applied and embraced as the new method of conducting business and provide a healthier profit. Losses may be identified (or overlooked) as: abuses of workers’ compensation claims, general liability claims, other fraudulent insurance claims, travel and entertainment fraud, misuse and
Brooklyn Center Council Votes To Suspend Hotel’s License
The timeline between when this hotel first encountered life safety concerns and when the matter ultimately reached the Brooklyn Center City Council—culminating in the suspension of its operating license—is not disclosed in the article. However, it is unlikely that the government process was swift. It appears that ownership failed to maintain the required fire life safety systems, thereby placing both employees and guests at serious risk of injury or death. Had a fire occurred, the potential for it to spread to adjacent establishments would have been significantly heightened. Hotels and motels bear a legal and ethical responsibility to maintain a safe and secure environment, exercising reasonable care for the welfare
A Weld County Jury awards two women $4 million after hotel clerk gave key to assailant
Originally published in the Denver Gazette Carol Gonzales thought she and her daughter were safe in Room 112 at the Longmont Econo Lodge. They didn’t know that a man determined to hurt them was in the lobby asking for a key, according to a civil lawsuit. The Denver Gazette obtained police reports that showed that, on Jan. 3, 2023, a man who was a stranger to front desk employees, was handed a key card to Gonzales’ room, even though he was not a registered guest of the hotel. With the key, Cody Czichos entered the room and physically assaulted Gonzales, then 69 years old, who called 911 and was transferred