Hotels and motels in Fort Wayne, Ind., area would face new health and safety standards under a proposed ordinance drafted in response to visitors’ complaints about bedbugs, damaged rooms and other problems with local lodging. The proposed ordinance would require …
Two people have filed a lawsuit on behalf of more than 50 residents and former residents of a Mount Pleasant apartment complex, saying they’ve dealt with health-related problems because of a long-running bedbug infestation. The Burlington Hawk Eye reports the …
t’s no sleeping-on-the-job joke for employees in a Cleveland, Ohio, federal office building treated for bedbugs. Two floors of the Celebrezze building were treated for bedbugs last week. The government’s real-estate management agency says the infestation was confined to a …
Bedbugs have been sharing space with two students who live in a dorm room at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Ashleigh Auman told Lincoln television station KLKN that she and her roommate noticed the bugs when they returned to their ninth-floor …
Bedbugs don’t make you sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A government study released Thursday found that dozens of Americans have fallen ill from the insecticides, and a North Carolina woman died after using 18 cans of …
Austin’s housing authority has spent nearly $40,000 over the past year to combat bedbugs in 15 of its 19 facilities. Sylvia Blanco of the agency told the Austin American-Statesman that the authority has been treating the insects since September 2010. …
Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a staph “superbug.” Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a downtrodden Vancouver neighborhood. Bedbugs have not been known to spread …
A former TV news staffer’s pioneering lawsuit over bedbug bites she received at her office has been thrown out by a judge who said workers can’t necessarily hold their employers’ landlords responsible for injuries on the job. Jane Clark’s lawyer …
Three women are suing a Southern California motel because of bedbug bites. Nicole Eatman, Vera Domini, and Regina Martocci have filed suit in Los Angeles against the Rodeway Inn-Regalodge Motel in Glendale, as well as its franchiser Choice Hotels International …