Woman Files Lawsuit Against Motel Owner Over Bed Bugs

VIRGINIA BEACH - A woman is suing an Oceanfront motel owner, contending that he knew bed bugs were in the room he leased to her and her infant son this year.

Michelle A. Scott is seeking $100,000 in compensation from Dan Perrella, owner of La Coquille Motel on 16th Street, for the medical treatment of her son. The boy was "significantly and permanently injured" by bedbug bites, "suffered itching, rashes, pock marks, scarring, humiliation and embarrassment and remains injured permanently from the insect infestation," she said in her complaint filed in Virginia Beach Circuit Court.

Perrella, meanwhile, said the woman's son was covered with scabs when they checked in. When he asked whether the child was all right, Scott told him the boy had chickenpox.

After Perrella learned bedbugs were in the room, he said, he moved mother and child to one of his other properties, the Flagship Resort Inn. He suspects they brought the bugs to La Coquille.

The city health department has received two complaints of bedbugs at La Coquille this year.

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Source: Hampton Roads