Hotel Lawsuits for Bedbugs on the Rise

Jeff Kinser — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:09:00 GMT

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$20M bedbug lawsuit filed

By Kitty Bean Yancey

Filed under the category "creepy news" comes the story of a Chicago woman who has filed suit against a Catskills resort for more than 500 bedbug bites she alleges she got while staying at the hotel. Leslie Fox and her husband had stayed at the Nevele Grand Resort and Country Club in Ellenville, N.Y. for three nights when she woke with bites all over her body, The Associated Press reports. Fox says she is asking for $20 million because the episode has scarred her body and mind. The hotel and its lawyer can't comment because they haven't seen the lawsuit yet, but the lawyer says the hotel has proof it is bug-free.

In case you think this story sounds familiar, there have been a number of cases of hotel bedbug lawsuits in the last year. The upswing in the nasty critters may have a link to an increase in foreign travel, USA TODAY reports.

Ok hotels, your on notice. Everyone who spends a night in your hotel is now a potential lawsuit if you have any bugs in the room.

Question: What can you do to eliminate the lawsuits?

Answer: Eliminate the bugs. But there is a catch. What if you use insecticides to get rid of the bugs and then that insecticide is proven to cause cancer like many of them have been proven to do in the past. Aren't you opening yourselves up to even more lawsuits once people find out the chemicals you have been spraying in the rooms?

Answer: Use a non-toxic, non-pesticide method to get rid of bedbugs. Find a product like Kleen Free Enzyme that removes bedbugs without using chemicals or pesticides. Kleen Free is a great cleaner that also has properties that get rid of insects like bedbugs, scabies, spiders, lice, mites, roaches and other insects. Use it in a spray bottle to clean the rooms each day and eliminate any bedbugs or other insects. Use it in the wash to get rid of any bedbugs that got rolled up in the bedsheets when they were removed. Use it in a steam cleaner to clean the carpets and get rid of bedbugs that like to nest in the carpet.

Look at http://www.licescabiesandbedbugs.com for more information about Kleen Free and how it can help protect hotels from lawsuits.

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Hotel Lawsuits for Bedbugs on the Rise

Read the following report and then I will comment:

$20M bedbug lawsuit filed