Category: lawsuits
By nobugsonme on Apr 28, 2008 in bed bugs, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, canada, hotels, lawsuits, lawyer, legal, manitoba, winnipeg | 1 Comment
A Toronto man is suing a Winnipeg Howard Johnson’s motel, claiming he was bitten by bed bugs there.
CJOB in Manitoba reports,
A Toronto man has filed a civil suit against the Howard Johnson Hotel on Ellice Avenue alleging he caught a case of the bed bugs while rooming at the establishment.
Steven Lipson claims after a one-night […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 29, 2008 in Debra Grogan, PAC Extermination, bed bug lawsuits, bed bugs, bedbugs, dr. robert j. novak, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, law, lawsuits, legal, milford plaza, new york, nyc | 0 Comments
Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal reports that
In a ruling of first impression, a Manhattan judge has scratched a request for punitive damages in a bedbug case.
But the judge, Acting Supreme Court Justice Judith J. Gische, let go forward the negligence claims of two Maryland tourists for bites they sustained during a two-night […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 25, 2008 in YMCA, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs and kids, bedbugs, blame game, camp, camp Storer, laws, lawsuit, lawsuits, legal, legal issues, michigan, smoking gun, summer camp | 4 Comments
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot reports that a family is suing the Storer YMCA camp in Napoleon Township, Michigan, claiming that their son brought bed bugs home with him from camp.
Edward Higgins, the defense lawyer, tried to kill the suit, claiming it’s impossible to know how and when bed bugs arrived in the home, but the judge […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2007 in CurbedSF, SUNY, Tipping Point, Toronto Public Health, bed bug letter, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, binghamton university, business, california, canada, cascade hall, cayuga hall, colleges, consumer, dorms, health department, history, lawsuits, legal, marina district, media, new york, news, ontario, public health, san francisco, snopes, students, toronto, town hall meeting, universities, usa | 1 Comment
National Post: Bed bugs invade Toronto
East Toronto city councillor Paula Fletcher asked the Toronto public health unit on Monday to study what it could do to eradicate the problem of bed bugs. Right now the public health unit does not track infestations, but simply offers phone advice to suff
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By nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2007 in Huffington Post, Nicholas Brown, apartments, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, dealing with bed bugs, disclosure, get rid of bed bugs, housing laws, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, landlord knew, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, living with bed bugs, new york, nyc, pest control, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, tenants, treatment, usa | 4 Comments
There’s a new update to Nicholas Brown’s bed bug journal on the Huffington Post today, and it takes us through the 39th day of living with bed bugs during treatment.
In this installment, we learn that bed bugs are taking a significant toll on Brown’s self-identity and social life:
Despite my anger, even our bug-laden living situation […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 27, 2007 in Cadwalader, activism, allergies, apartments, awareness, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, bloomberg, cambridge, colleges, condominiums, consumer, curbed, denial, detection, good ideas, gossip, harvard, health, hotels, ignorance, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, mental health, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, public education, public health, real estate, rumors, spread, tenants, treatment, usa, we're doomed, workplace | 0 Comments
Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 21, 2007 in bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, dorms, health, hotels, lawsuits, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, news, nyc, students, treatment, treatment in hotels, usa | 3 Comments
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NY1 news reported Thursday that Fordham senior Michelle Hopkins has filed a suit for negligence and unspecified damages over bites incurred in her “dorm” room (click “dial-up” or “broadband” next to the photo at the NY1 site to […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 30, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, dr. michael potter, england, entomologists, ferries, government, history, immigration, journalist, lawsuits, legal, london, loopy ideas, luggage, misinformation, new york, news, northern ireland, public education, spread, travel, uk, usa | 1 Comment
I was perplexed by this article from August 20th in the Times (London, not New York) about the spread of bed bugs, mainly because it was only about the bed bug epidemic in the USA.
Times reporter Chris Ayres writes from Los Angeles,
Five decades after being declared officially dead, the most toe-curling of all America’s […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 8, 2007 in Aaron Rents, atlanta, bed bugs, bedbugs, delivery trucks, furniture rental, georgia, kentucky, lawsuits, legal, usa | 5 Comments
D. L. Bennett of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports today that a family in Atlanta is suing Aaron Rents, a furniture sales and rental firm, which operates 515 stores in 39 states, for $250,000 in damages. They claim that the living room suite they rented from Aaron Rents was infested with bed bugs.
Rebekah […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 1, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, hotels, lawsuits, legal | 13 Comments
LegalNewsline.com reports on a new bed bug case proceeding in New York’s Southern District.
A woman spent two nights in a Hilton in Ohio, got 150 bed bug bites, and is proceeding with a $5 million dollar lawsuit charging physical scarring, emotional distress, and embarrassment.
The plaintiff, Sai Kim, alleges that she checked into Room 336 at […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 1, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, hotels, lawsuits, legal, new york, nyc, research | 3 Comments
Kathianne Boniello of the New York Post reports today that the Roger Smith Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City is being sued by a couple who were bitten by bed bugs there.
The article states, oddly, that
The complaint is part of a mounting bedbug trend in the city. Complaints were up 22 percent, […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 27, 2007 in CWT, Cadwalader, Taft, Tipping Point, Wickersham, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, employee, lawsuits, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, rumors, signs and symptoms, treatment, workplace | 19 Comments
Legal blog Above the Law has reproduced a memo from the Chairman of a well-known law firm announcing to employees that there is a bed bug problem on the 33rd floor in the Word Processing dept. of that firm. (MediaBistro’s FlishBowlNY blog is also covering this, so the leaked memo is getting around.)
In it, […]
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