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Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite

By Glen Ashman

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Hotel Bedbugs Don't Warrant Punitive Damages, Judge Decides
New York Law Journal

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 stay at the Milford Plaza Hotel, and for which they're seeking $2 million in compensatory damages. Gische found that the plaintiffs had failed "to raise a triable issue of fact whether bedbugs are anything more than a nuisance."
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1206700936042

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).

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