Category: legal
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 Mar 24, 2008 in Cadwalader, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, cravath swaine and moore, law firms, lawyers, legal, nyc, workplace | 0 Comments
This time it’s Cravath, Swaine, and Moore, according to legal tabloid Above the Law. Apparently Cravath are trying to one-up Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, who Above the Law claimed had bed bugs in June, and again in October.
Above the Law claims,
1. An email was sent around Cravath last week about the presence of […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 27, 2008 in SRO, bed bug lawsuit, bed bugs, bedbugs, law, legal, low-income housing, nashua, new hampshire, nh, richard jebb, rooming house | 1 Comment
More on the Nashua rooming-house mentioned in this story.
Richard Jebb of Nashua, New Hampshire, is suing his rooming-house, having had nine treatments in his room and still suffering from bed bugs, according to the Nashua Telegraph.
On Tuesday, Jebb took his bug problem to Nashua District Court, suing his landlord, Mark Flint, and the owners of […]
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 Jan 20, 2008 in Bed Bug Dogs, bed bug inspection, bed bugs, bed bugs and real estate, bedbugs, brokers, buying a home, how to avoid bed bugs, how to detect bed bugs, lawyers, legal, legal issues, new york city, new york state, property condition disclosure act, real estate | 1 Comment
This Q&A in the New York Times Real Estate section brings up an interesting question.
A couple selling a New York City apartment had bed bugs six months ago. They have not noticed any problem since. So the question is, do they need to disclose that the property they’re selling had bed bugs recently?
Jay […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 24, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, college, england, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, isle of wight, law, lawsuit, legal, monetary claim, study abroad, travel, travel and bed bugs, uk | 4 Comments
BED BUG CLAIM EARNS GUEST £630 (Isle of Wight, UK)
“A DISGRUNTLED guest who claimed his experience at a Sandown hotel ruined his break has won £630 in compensation. Keith Clack, from Brighton, took legal action against The Carlton Hotel, on Sandown Esplanade, claiming his room and bed were infested with
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By nobugsonme on Nov 21, 2007 in bed bug lawsuit, bed bug precautions, bed bug travel, bed bugs, bedbugs, dr. lou sorkin, dust mites, entomologists, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, how to avoid bed bugs, journalist, journalists, journalists with bed bugs, law, lawyer, legal, ny1, steven de castro, travel, valerie d'elia | 2 Comments
After traveling to 71 countries and staying in hundreds of hotels, NY1 journalist Valerie D’Elia encountered bed bugs in a hotel. Luckily, she did not appear to take them home with her.
Here she tells the story, and asks a few questions of attorney Steven De Castro (who’s been involved with bed bug lawsuits) and […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 15, 2007 in bed bug hotels, bed bugs, bedbugs, hotel, hotel pennsylvania, hotels, law, lawsuit, legal, new york, new york city, nyc, usa | 3 Comments
The New York Observer reports that the Hotel Pennsylvania has settled its bed bug lawsuit out of court.
Vornado-owned Hotel Pennsylvania has agreed to pay nearly $100,000, court records show, to a group of six tourists who claimed to have been bitten by bedbugs while staying at the old Seventh Avenue lodge.
You can read the rest […]
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 […]