Originally Posted by
GUWonder
My sense is that hotels in the US would rather settle such matters out of court than have the laundry aired out in court since the preponderance of the evidence showing hotel sloppiness/negligence by providing additional persons room access (to an occupied room) could be sufficient to not only give the plaintiff a win but also create a court-recorded trail the hotels would rather not have publicly accessible for future use.
The only realistic way that this ever gets aired out in public* is if there is a class can be certified by showing a pattern of negligence permitting multiple guest entries to the same room, etc. There probably isn't a competent personal injury attorney who could afford the discovery obstacles in any single case. At best, nuisance value money would be obtained where no pecuniary loss or no physical harm has occurred.
Adding to the OP's recovery issues (should the issue ever see lawyers) is the measure of damages. No MD or other mental health care professional visited? No wage loss due to emotional distress? No job loss due to naked pics floating around the interwebs? Throw some potential comparative negligence on top of this, and I'd not want to hire the lawyer that wants to take the case ... without evidence of a pattern and practice that can make the event into something larger than this single incident.
* a run of the mill case where no violent or grand theft crime has been committed.