A security company hired to watch a New York City homeless shelter failed to prove it was not negligent when two men attacked a shelter resident who was set on fire, a Brooklyn appeals court ruled.
In 2007, Ian Clark was a resident at the Kingsboro Star House, a homeless shelter, when early one morning two men who previously had assaulted Clark doused him with flammable liquid that ignited.
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