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Painful lessons: the Aramark case shines a spotlight on the challenges of serving alcohol in...

By DeConti, Elizabeth A.
Publication: Cheers
Date: Friday, June 1 2007

The special legal issues and compliance problems specific to large venues gained national attention this year as a result of the tragic case of Verni ex rel. Burnstein v. Harry M. Stevens, Inc., commonly referred to as "the Aramark case." In this terribly sad case, a New Jersey jury awarded a mother and her two-year old daughter more than $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages after they were severely injured in an automobile accident involving a man who had been drinking heavily at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. In August of 2006, a New Jersey appellate court

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