Yahoo Finance A Family Is Suing Disneyland After Getting Bedbugs From a Famous Hotel
Back in 2014, Joseph and Danielle Jones took their children to what's supposed to be the happiest place on earth: Disneyland. They packed up their bags and drove more than 350 miles from their San Leandro, California home and stayed at the Grand Californian Hotel and Spa in Anaheim. But it wasn't long before their 9-year-old daughter started complaining about itchy, painful bites on her face - the result of bedbugs.
Two years later, the family is now suing Disney and seeking unspecified damages for alleged battery, negligence, fraudulent concealment, nuisance and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The complaint states that the hotel already had a history of guests reporting bed bug bites before the Jones' arrived. But when the family reported the bites, the hotel staff did not listen: "The housekeeping manager suggested the family's bites were probably mosquito bites, dismissing their concerns that they could have been bedbugs," the suit states.
By the next day, the entire family had bites on their bodies alleges the suit and doctors at the Oakland hospital confirmed the bites were from bedbugs. After returning home, the family had to throw out all of their clothing and luggage. The youngest daughter also has permanent scarring from the event. It remains to be seen how the lawsuit will turn out, but maybe the hotel should start using yellow or green sheets to ward off these insects in the future?
[h/t NBC Los Angeles]
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