Preliminary approval has been given for a $2.45 million settlement in a four-year-old class-action lawsuit brought by elderly and disabled bedbug-bitten residents of two downtown Des Moines apartment buildings, the Des Moines Register reported.
Payments to the estimated 300 current and former residents of Elsie Mason Manor and Ligutti Tower could range from $200 to $6,000, said Jeffrey Lipman, one of the attorneys who represented the residents who filed the lawsuit in March 2010 seeking money for back rent, lost property and other hardships. Problems with bedbugs began in 2007.
The lawsuit ended up at the Iowa Supreme Court, which had been asked to decertify the class-action status. The court deadlocked, which meant a lower court's ruling allowing the class-action status stood. The case was settled before it went to trial.
The settlement could have implications for similar cases, officials said.
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Source: Des Moines Register
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