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 jury in California has awarded a pair of hotel guests $2 million after their bedbug-infested rooms resulted in “painful” bites, severe skin rash and injuries over the “entirety of their bodies.”

Plaintiffs Alvaro Gutierrez and Ramiro Sanchez checked into The Shores Inn, located at 1059 South Seaward Ave. in Ventura, just steps away from the Pacific Ocean, on Feb. 7, 2020, the complaint obtained by Law&Crime said. Once inside the room, they were immediately subjected to bedbugs. They alerted hotel staff of the situation and were moved to a second room.

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“Even after Defendants moved Plaintiffs to a different room, the Hotel Room 109, Plaintiffs bodies continued to be massacre[d] from bedbugs bites,” the complaint said.

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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