Bedbug Litigation

Bedbugs are rapidly infesting apartment buildings throughout Los Angeles. Just take a look at the Bedbug Registry website to see how many buildings in the Los Angeles area have a known, and unresolved, bedbug problem!

Landlords are required by law to exterminate bedbugs in their apartment buildings. See Civil Code section 1941.1(f). And the only way to effectively exterminate bedbugs is to extermine not only the apartment units that are known to have bedbugs, but also the apartment units adjoining the infested units. See the California State Guidelines on bedbug extermination.

Landlords often make the problem worse by ignoring the issue, or pretending that the tenants who are being bitten are responsible for bringing in the bedbugs. Also, if your landlord only treats one affected unit, the landlord may be speading the infestation throughout the building. If you have bedbugs in your building, ask around. Find out if others have the same problem, or if they have had the problem before. See if the landlord has also blamed them for the bedbug problem.

If you have an irresponsible landlord who is not exterminating the bedbugs in your apartment unit properly, you can band together with other affected tenants and file a lawsuit for money damages and to force the landlord to perform a building-wide extermination. Please call to discuss your particular situation.

For more information on bedbugs, you can read about them here.