Posted on
Saturday 29 March 2008
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."
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