What to do if i was bitten by bed bugs in a hotel
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What to do if i was bitten by bed bugs in a hotel
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Asked on June 12, 2017 under Personal Injury, Maryland
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Have you contracted some bed bug-borne illness (though note: I am not aware of any)? If so, and it's serious or caused you to incur significant medical costs, you can potentially sue for compensation. Otherwise, there is not really anything cost-effective to do: since you can only sue for your provable costs or losses, you could, in the absence of some significant injury, only sue the hotel to recover the cost of the stay, since they violated their obligations by renting you an effectively uninhabitable room, but whether it is worth the time, effort and cost of a lawsuit for this is a very different question.
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