The money was awarded to Lt. Paula Coughlin, who sued the Tailhook Association, the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and the parent Hilton corporation as a result of being sexual assaulted by a gauntlet of men on the third floor of the hotel. The hotel chain argued that it should not be liable for punitive damages because it did not act with a conscious disregard for the safety of hotel guests. The Las Vegas hotel also was liable, since they received complaints three years earlier that assaults took place at the convention. .
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