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Swiss women sue after hotel bedbug attacks
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Two Swiss women who spent a week at a Manhattan hotel have filed a lawsuit
saying they had a lousy time trying to sleep there because they were bitten by bedbugs.
Ksenija Knezevic, of Zurich, and Marlies Barisic, of Kreuzlingen, both in their early 30s, say the bloodsucking
insects began attacking the night they checked into the Hotel Pennsylvania in September.
The women's lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says they suffered bedbug bites
over their torsos, arms and legs. Their lawyer, Alberto Ebanks, said bugs also bit their cheeks and necks
and caused possibly permanent scarring. "They were eaten alive," Ebanks said Wednesday. The lawsuit
seeks unspecified damages. Roann Kulikoff, a spokeswoman for the hotel and its owners, said her clients
did not comment on pending litigation.
Ebanks said that when the women told hotel employees that they were uncomfortable and
something was wrong, one worker immediately exclaimed, "Bedbugs!"
"That tells us that this hotel was certainly on notice that they had a bedbug problem," the lawyer said.