Crashing at a hotel only to leave at the end of your stay feeling itchy, possibly sounds like a nightmare for many. Well, for a pair of California men, they turned their bed bug fiasco into a $2 million award.
Alvaro Gutierrez and Ramiro Sanchez filed a lawsuit against The Shores Inn in Ventura, California, after their February 2020 stay left them with "painful bed bug bites, severe skin rash, allergic reaction, scarring and personal injuries over the entirety of their bodies," according to the complaint obtained by USA TODAY.
The lawsuit filed in December 2021 by lawyer and bed bug specialist, Brian J. Virag, of My Bed Bug Lawyer, Inc., alleged that the couple discovered the bedbug infestation after checking into their room and were moved into another, where they "continued to be massacre(d) from bed bugs (sic) bites." It also alleged, based on Google and Yelp reviews left by prior guests, that management had previously been informed of the same issue.
Gutierrez and Sanchez were forced to seek medical treatment after their stay at the hotel, the suit alleges, as bed bugs "latched onto the Plaintiffs while they slept, sucked their blood until they were gorged, and resisted eradication."
