Guests win $2 million from hotel after bed bug infestation
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Background: Shore Inn hotel in Ventura, California (Google Maps). Inset: Bedbugs found inside hotel room (Brian J. Virag).

A California jury has granted $2 million to two hotel guests after they suffered from “painful” bedbug bites, severe skin rashes, and injuries covering their entire bodies due to staying in infested rooms.

The plaintiffs, Alvaro Gutierrez and Ramiro Sanchez, checked into The Shores Inn at 1059 South Seaward Ave. in Ventura, near the Pacific Ocean, on February 7, 2020, according to the complaint accessible through Law&Crime. Once in their room, they quickly fell victim to a bedbug infestation. After they informed the hotel staff, they were relocated to another room.

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“Despite being moved to a different room, Room 109 of the hotel, the plaintiffs continued to suffer severe bedbug bites,” as stated in the complaint.

Despite staying in the room just one night, the guests suffered numerous bites, the lawsuit said.

“The bed bugs latched onto the Plaintiffs while they slept, sucked their blood until they were gorged, and resisted eradication,” the complaint said. “Plaintiffs suffered from numerous bed bug bites, which caused and presently continue to cause pain, discomfort, annoyance, sleeplessness, inconvenience, humiliation, anxiety and ongoing mental and emotional distress.”

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They left the hotel a week before their planned checkout date. Gutierrez and Sanchez had to seek medical care on “multiple occasions.”

Lawyer Brian J. Virag, who specializes in bedbug and other vermin lawsuits, filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiffs against the hotel owner Dario L. Pini in December 2021 in Ventura Superior Court.

Virag noted in the lawsuit that the hotel should have known about the bedbug problem based on past reviews from guests on Google and Yelp complaining about them.

“Defendant failed to disclose the material facts or warn Plaintiffs of the presence of these filthy infestations,” the lawsuit said.

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