An assault is committed by one person, but when it happens at a bar, hotel, parking lot, or apartment complex, the business may also be responsible. This post explains how negligent security claims work in Pennsylvania, why foreseeability matters, how landlords are treated differently, and what to do after an assault on someone else's property.

When criminal charges are filed after an assault, it can feel like the system has taken over and the injured person just waits. The criminal case belongs to the Commonwealth, and it is not designed to make the injured person whole. Here is how a civil claim works alongside it, what restitution does and does not cover, and why the two-year deadline keeps running the whole time.