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A Canadian man has filed a lawsuit against Caesars Windsor and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation claiming that they should have known that he was a compulsive gambler and should not have let him into the casino.
According to the Windsor Star, Tarwinder Shokar lost around $342,000 in October 2013. In Shokar’s lawsuit, he alleges that Caesars Windsor played a role in his significant losses. The case has subsequently been transferred to the Superior Court of Justice in Windsor.
The lawsuit states that Shokar is an alcoholic and a compulsive gambler. According to Shokar, the Windsor casino should not have let him into the casino as he had been banned from other casinos for his drunk and disorderly behavior. The Caesars Windsor lawsuit also claims that the plaintiff has fraud convictions in his past.
Even more serious, before his gambling spree, the plaintiff allegedly attempted suicide by throwing himself in front of a bus due to losses from his gambling habits.
The Caesars gambling lawsuit claims that the casino should have known the plaintiff had a gambling problem, but took advantage of him due to the large amount of money they could make, according to Newsweek.
The plaintiff states that on his first visit to the casino in October 2013, he lost $92,000 and then days later lost $250,000.
Shokar’s attorney told the Windsor Star that the casino paid for $800 in taxi rides from his home and back and that there was a table specifically opened for him when he came back to the casino.
The plaintiff says that when the casino found out that he was going to be waging a large amount of money, they started serving him a lot of alcohol and allowed him to gamble while drunk. These actions encouraged Shokar’s gambling addiction, the lawsuit claims.
In their statement of defense filed with the court, the defendants state that Shokar is the only one to blame for losing his money at the casino.
“Each time he made a wager, he chose the amount of money he wanted to wager in full knowledge of the risks associated with that wager,” their lawyers wrote, asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit against them.
In their statement of defense, the casino argues that any losses suffered by Shokar are not recoverable by the law and that he was negligent in going to the casino in the first place.
In moving the case to Windsor, the judge stated that Caesars Windsor is important to the city, noting that there is community interest in the lawsuit. The judge continued by stating that casino employs 2,700 people, has paid $3.5 billion to employees, and has contributed $15 million to local community projects.
The Windsor Star notes that there were three other cases filed against Caesars Windsor in the Superior Court of Justice in 2019, all concerning personal injuries sustained by the plaintiffs while at the casino.
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The plaintiff is represented by Iain MacKinnon of Linden & Associates.
The case information for the Caesars Windsor lawsuit is not available.
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2 thoughts onCanadian Gambler Says Caesars Windsor Owes Him For Losses
I also was a compulsive gambler. I lost thousands to Windsor Casino. I ended up losing my house, everything I had. Gone.
Add me too.