Lawsuits against Las Vegas casinos

Last update:  March 15, 2026

Casinos get sued a lot.  Sometimes they even sue each other.  Here are some cases I noticed.

Aria (gambling debt) • Dec. 2025

A man claims he was drugged and Aria let him rack up $75,000 in losses in that state.  He’s suing, saying Aria should not have let him play when he was incapacitated.  Nevada law does require casinos to cut off players who are visibly intoxicated from either alcohol or drugs, so the case is going to hinge on exactly how visibly intoxicated he was (or wasn’t).  (Independent) 

Resorts World (racketeering) • Dec. 2025

A gambler and FBI informant alleges widespread corruption among executives at Resorts World, including money laundering, drug running, money laundering, and false arrest. (Daily Mail)  Well, Resorts World was already fined for money laundering, so there’s that.

Caesars Entertainment (death • Nov. 2025

When a guest at Caesars Palace fell seriously ill, employees thought he was drunk and called an Uber, rather than an ambulance.  The suit by the estate claims the delay in care resulted in the guest’s death.  They’re suing for $15,000 to cover medical and funeral expenses.  (Law & Crime) 

Boyd Gaming (data breach) • Sept., Oct. 2025

A former Boyd employee sued Boyd for failing to protect against a cyberattack in which the hackers stole information about employees.  (KTNW)  Following that, four other plaintiffs filed suits, hoping to establish a class actoin. (Casino Beats) 

Aria (wrongful death) • September 2025

Actor Michael Heslin died of a cardiac event at an Aria restaurant.  The $30k lawsuit from his husband alleges, among other things, that restaurant staff forcibly removed someone who was trying to perform CPR.  (Independent) 

Venetian (religious discrimination) • July 2025

Venetian will pay $850,000 to employees for religious discrimination, and retaliation against those complaining.  The complaining employees were of various faiths, including Orthodox Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Jehovah’s Witness, and Buddhist. (Nevada Current, EEOC) 

Resorts World (black mold) • June 2025

A couple who says they got sick from pervasive black mold in their room at Resorts World in January is suing the casino for past and ongoing medical expenses, and lost wages.  The amount is undisclosed but reported to be “over $15,000”. (Daily Mail) 

Luxor + Treasure Island (bed bugs) • May 2025

Three lawsuits were filed, two against Luxor, one against Treasure Island.  In one case, a guest had to be hospitalized because of bed bug bites.  The hotels could likely have avoided lawsuits had they simply provided meaningful compensation, but in the case where the guest was hospitalized, Luxor offered only to waive the resort fee. (groan)

Understand what these lawsuits mean for you:  To avoid future lawsuits, the hotels will be spraying the hell out of the rooms with toxic pesticides (carcinogens and endocrine disruptors), which you will be invisibly subjected to.  Enjoy. (News 3 LV) 

Venetian (murder by prostitute) • March 2025

A prostitute gave a customer a fatal overdose of fentanyl at Venetian, then stole his money and left.  (This is one of the 13 Reasons Not to Hire a Prostitute in Las Vegas.)  The customer’s widow is suing Venetian for failing to protect their customer’s safety, since the prostitute and her pimp were known to security staff.  Attorneys say she may have a case. (AOL News)  Another woman killed another man at a Vegas hotel, but news reports don’t mention whether she was a prostitute.

Palms (elevator drop) • March 2025

A woman is suing Palms alleging she was injured when an elevator plunged 22 stories.  News reports can’t confirm whether the woman was in the elevator or what injuries she supposedly sustained. (Casino.org) 

Resorts World (financial crimes) • March 2025

Resorts World paid $10.5 million for illegal bookmaking and money laundering. (Daily Indy) 

Wynn (letting gambler use stolen funds) • Oct. 2024

A company (James Bay Resources) invested money with David Bunevacz, but Bunevacz took the money and blew it gambling at Wynn.  James Bay is now suing Wynn, saying it should have looked into Bunevacz and discovered his criminal record, etc. (which apparently James Bay didn’t do when they invested money with Bunevacz). (Gaming America) 

Wynn vs. Fontainebleau (poaching executives) • 2024

Wynn is suing Fontainebleau for allegedly poaching its executives.  As of March 2025, I can’t find any news since May 2024. (casino.org) 

Trump International (wrongful death) • March 2023

A woman died after allegedly being “ejected” from a malfunctioning revolving door at the hotel.  Her family is suing for wrongful death. (LVRJ) 

Wynn (not helping heart attack victim) • Feb. 2023

A blackjack player had a heart attack and slumped over at the table, but the dealer just continued to deal, and no one helped the player for 20 minutes.  He died, and his family is suing. (Casino.org) 

Cosmopolitan (slip and fall) • September 2021

A woman successfully sued MGM Resorts for $15M after a slip and fall in the Chandelier Bar involving “glass and water”.  MGM Resorts wasn’t the owner when the incident occurred, but somehow took the hit. (Yahoo) 

MGM (compuslive gambling) • 2019-2020

Sam Antar claimed that MGM exploited his gambling addiction, leading him to lose $25 million online in 2022.  He alleged that MGM enticed him and sent him over 1800 messages inducing him to play, despite knowing he was a problem gambler.  He lost.  Note that this is the opposite of alcohol:  Bars are legally required to cut off customers who have had too much to drink.  In casinos, you can gamble your whole life away in minutes and the casino will never intervene.  That’s wrong even when the casino isn’t overtly predatory, and it’s extra wrong when it is.  Casinos should be reformed to stop this problem.  (Courthouse News, 2025) 

Mandalay Bay (shooting) • Oct. 4, 2019

Mandalay Bay was the site of the worst mass-shooting in American history on Oct. 1, 2017 when a gunman busted out the window of his hotel room and fired on outdoor concert-goers, killing 61 and injuring hundreds.  Survivors and family of the dead sued Mandalay Bay, claiming that the hotel should have done more to prevent the shooting.

It’s a curious argument.  Obviously staff and security had no idea that one of their guests was bringing weapons to his room or how he planned to use them.  This kind of incident had never happened before in human history so it’s kind of hard to argue that it's something that staff should have known to look out for.  Had they noticed the gunman bringing several cases to his room, what were they supposed to do, ask to see the contents?  If the gunman had refused, did they have any authority to demand that he show them?  Without any idea what was in the cases that they couldn't see, should they have kicked their paying hotel guest out of his room?

Nevertheless, Mandalay Bay settled for $800M, probably because of a combination of their insurance company picking up $750M of the tab, and the facts that fighting a gazillion lawsuits would be likewise expensive and keep Mandalay Bay in the news in a bad way.