Las Vegas: Aria restaurant employees failed to perform lifesaving acts, lawsuit claims

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 2:24 PM
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  • Emerson Drewes, Las Vegas Review-Journal

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a Strip property for allegedly failing to perform lifesaving intervention on a patron after suffering a medical emergency inside one of its restaurants.

Filed against the Aria and Javier’s, a high-end Mexican restaurant on Sept. 18 in the Clark County District Court, the lawsuit alleges Michael Edward Heslin suffered a medical emergency inside of the restaurant, on June 25, 2024. The staff failed to perform lifesaving intervention — even at one point, interferring with someone performing CPR, according to the lawsuit.

He died on July 2, 2024. A cause of death is not listed in the lawsuit.