This sounds like a horrid attack. I hope you were able to obtain a police report and have identified some witnesses. I am not an attorney, but I sincerely hope you are not even considering defending yourself in this case.

You need to contact a personal injury attorney in your own jurisdiction immediately; before you attend this meeting. A Personal Injury Attorney specializes in such cases. They almost always will meet with you at no cost to review your case. After they review your case, they will make a determination of whether they will take your case. If they accept, they almost always work on a contingency basis. This means they do not charge you for their service in advance.

Instead, they agree to accept a percentage of your settlement amount. In most cases, they will accept 30% if they can win a settlement before going to court, or 40% if they have to argue the case in court. That may sound like a lot, but it could make a huge difference in the end results of your case. They earn it. Don't ignore that level of expertise in your legal defense.

Contact your state bar for a recommendation of a personal injury attorney in your area. Do it now. If they have enough time, they may be able to request a delay in your hearing so they can have time to review your case.

You have a tremendous amount to recover from the casino for not having sufficient security personnel to deal with this situation.

All the effects of the attack that you mentioned are very relevant. This could have lasting mental and physical effects on both you and your husband for the rest of your lives.

The settlement amount has to take into account continuing medical and psychiatric counseling for many years to come. Years from now, Medicare can not be relied on for covering all those expenses. Major med plans are expensive.

In assault and battery cases it's well-known in the courts that the assailants take their victim "as they find him," meaning that your husband's specially vulnerable condition due to cancer, even if unknown to the attackers, still was aggravated by the attack and made the effects of the attack much worse than for a normal healthy victim.

That's no excuse in law, that they didn't know he was weakened from cancer and chemo. They are still liable (and the casino also) for the full extent of the injuries, even the ones specially connected to your husband's particular vulnerability due to his cancer and chemo treatments.

Based on recent settlement figures in New Jersey, ranging from 20 million (suit against the government for police killing citizen) to $500,000 (auto accident cases) a rough estimate in your case would be between one and two million dollars.

It's going to depend on medical testimony of the effects of the assault, your husband's life expectancy, the extent of continued care required for the remainder of his life, psychiatric testimony and medical testimony regarding your injuries, the foreseeable nature of the attack considering the circumstances observed by casino personnel, and all the many surrounding circumstances and proofs involved.