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Philadelphia Bed Bug Lawyer Injury Claims

The bed bug injury claim lawyers at Whitney, LLP have noticed an increase in 2018 in calls from potential clients involving bed bug cases in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is also ranked number 12, down from number 9 in 2017, on Orkin Pest Control’s 2018 Top BedBug Cities published in January 2018. Bed bug legal

Posted 22 days ago | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

Histamine in Bed Bug Feces: A Serious and Persistent Health Hazard

Who knew that bed bugs defecate large amounts of histamine? On February 12, 2018, scientists at North Carolina State University published a study which identified a previously unknown health risk associated with bed bugs. See DeVries A, Santangelo R, Barbarin A, Schal C, (2018) Histamine as a emergent indoor contaminant: Accumulation and persistence in bed

Posted February 23, 2018 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

New Medical Research on Bed Bugs’ Transmission of Chagas Disease to Humans

Chagas disease is caused by a parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi or T. cruzi) known to be transmitted to humans by a blood-sucking insect known as the “kissing bug”. See https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/gen_info/detailed.html; http://www.who.int/chagas/disease/transmission/en/. Kissing bugs feed on human blood at night, often on sleeping person’s face, and defecate close to the bite. See WHO website. Its feces contain

Posted February 15, 2018 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

Baltimore Maryland Bed Bug Claim and Lawsuit Lawyers

Whitney, LLP’s Baltimore, Maryland bed bug lawyers have obtained verdicts and settlements totaling over $7 million for victims of bed bug bites in infested hotel, apartment, hospital and furniture cases. Over the last five years, Whitney, LLP has won several of the largest bed bug jury verdicts in the United States. A description of those

Posted February 13, 2018 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

$200,000 Hotel Bed Bug Lawsuit Settlement

Our client was bitten by bed bugs over one hundred times across her arms and legs during a short stay at a popular hotel chain operating throughout the United States. She retained Whitney, LLP and we worked to settle the case before filing suit. When the insurance company refused to negotiate in good faith, we

Posted September 12, 2017 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

$70,000 Bed Bug Settlement Against JK2 Westminster, LLC

Whitney, LLP successfully represented a family consisting of a single mother and her two young children who moved into a Highland Village townhouse managed by JK2 Westminster, LLC. This particular property management company was mentioned in a story published by The New York Times Magazine on May 23, 2017, which covered the residential real estate holdings

Posted August 10, 2017 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs, Consumer Fraud

$125,000 Bed Bug Lawyers Settle Maryland Lawsuit

On September 4, 2015, our clients entered into a written lease for an apartment located in Prince George’s County, Maryland managed by a large property management company. Previously, the bed bug attorneys here at Whitney, LLP had sued this property management company for bed bugs claims and recovered large settlements. Unfortunately for our clients,

Posted May 23, 2017 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

$60,000 Bed Bug Settlement Against College Park, MD Hotel

A family staying at a hotel and being badly bitten by bed bugs is an increasingly common occurrence in Maryland and the United States in general. In this case, our clients, a single mother and her 17 year old daughter, checked into the College Park Comfort Inn & Suites (the “Hotel”) in College Park, Maryland on

Posted April 8, 2017 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs, Personal Injury

$90,000 Bed Bug Settlement in Leonardtown, Maryland.

For a family of five with children, a safe home is a must. Our clients, a young family with three young children, then-ages 16, 9 and 2, thought they had found a new, safe home when they rented a two bedroom Trailer from a well-known landlord in Leonardtown in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. At the

Posted March 12, 2017 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs, Consumer Fraud, Uncategorized

Bed Bug Claims, Apartments and Rent Escrow

Bed bugs and apartment buildings are an inevitable and unavoidable combination. The bed bug attorneys at Whitney, LLP have successfully recovered millions of dollars for our clients in bed bug claims and bed bug lawsuits who were leased bed bug infested apartments and who lived in infested apartments while the landlord failed to provide effective

Posted September 18, 2016 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

Daniel W. Whitney named as Preeminent Bed Bug Lawyer

Daniel W. Whitney, managing partner of Whitney, LLP, was recently named by the Atlas Obscura as the country’s preeminent bed bug lawyer. The article, available here at http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/interviewing-the-countrys-preeminent-bed-bug-lawyer , provides a concise history of how Mr. Whitney became involved in bed bug litigation. Whitney, LLP represents individuals who have been injured in a variety of cases – in

Posted August 29, 2016 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

Interpretation Of Hotel Bed Bug Inspection Reports

A guest complaint of a bed bug bite at a hotel should trigger a prompt inspection by a licensed pest control professional. There is a wide range of competency among pest control technicians performing bed bug inspections. Whether a bed bug or evidence of a bed bug is found depends upon how thorough a search

Posted March 30, 2016 | by Daniel W. Whitney Jr. |in Bed Bugs

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