Crime Victims FAQ's

In addition to recovering monetary compensation for your pain and suffering, relevant medical expenses, and more, filing a lawsuit is a key step in holding the perpetrator accountable for the harm they inflicted on you. It is also a powerful way to minimize the chances that others will be similarly abused in the future.

While it is certainly important to hold individual perpetrators accountable for the harm they have inflicted on their victims, sometimes abuse is so embedded within an organization that pursuing justice against the entire institution is a necessary step in ending the cycle of abuse once and for all. For decades, many organizations had, and in some cases continue to have, cultures and policies that sought to protect abusive employees over the innocent victims they hurt.