Nov
14
2007
Hotel Pennsylvania Settles Bedbug Suits for Nearly $100,000
by Chris Shott Published: November 14, 2007
Associated Press.
Vornado-owned Hotel Pennsylvania has agreed to pay nearly $100,000, court records show, to a group of six tourists who claimed to have been bitten by bedbugs while staying at the old Seventh Avenue lodge.
The alleged victims included two Swiss women reportedly [...]
Nov
13
2007
Bed Bugs
* By Melissa Kirsch
* Published Nov 12, 2007
Believed eradicated in the U.S. by DDT in the forties and fifties, bedbugs started reappearing in the late eighties, reaching epidemic levels in the past decade. Exterminators, unprepared to deal with a pest unseen for years, can’t rely on DDT because it’s been illegal since [...]
Nov
12
2007
Battling bedbugs is not easy
Nov 12, 2007 04:30 AM
Steve Floros, a senior official of the Toronto Community Housing Corp., was talking about the problem of bedbugs in social housing.
As you know, the little blood-sucking pests are creeping and crawling their way across the city, not just through the walls of public housing. I’ll bet [...]
Nov
03
2007
I’ve been reading forums for weeks now & I do sense the pain that everyone faced with an infestation is going thru. My heart & prayers go out to you. Here’s a new area to add & to watch how WSU & PCO’s handle the situation. The only mention of BB’s was a 30sec. clip [...]