A former elementary school teacher from Michigan is suing MGM Resorts, claiming that he was electrocuted by a faulty lamp in a hotel room at MGM’s Luxor casino resort.
David Van Horn filed suit in the Eighth Judicial District Circuit Court of Nevada, according to reporting by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which broke the story. Alleging negligence and breach of duty for failing to maintain his hotel room, his complaint seeks financial compensation for past and future damages, including medical expenses and lost employment wages stemming from the alleged incident.
According to the complaint, Van Horn and his wife were staying at the Luxor on Nov. 26, 2023, when he touched a lamp to turn it on.
Van Horn says he felt “severe pain and shock” from a surge of electricity that also caused him to be “suddenly and violently thrown.” Van Horn claims he struck his head on furniture before hitting the floor.
This resulted, according to the complaint, in a concussion and “traumatic brain injury” that caused Van Horn “post-traumatic headaches, memory and hearing issues, imbalance, dizziness, and speech impediments including stuttering.”
These impairments forced Van Horn to retire as a teacher four years before he was eligible to receive a pension, the lawsuit claims, adding that MGM Resorts was directly responsible because it “knew, or through a reasonable inspection would have known, that the dangerous condition existed” and should have corrected it.
