“A couple who filed a $20 million lawsuit against a Catskills hotel after allegedly being attacked by bedbugs returned to the resort for another stay just nine days later, a lawyer for the hotel told the Daily News yesterday. Leslie Fox and Stephen Cohen checked in at the Nevele Hotel on July 15, 2005 – then returned from July 24 to July 29, attorney Joseph O’Connor said. ‘The claim for a $20 million injury is not substantiated by her willingness to stay in the same section of the hotel two weeks later,’ he said.” Fox and her husband are being represented by Alan J. Schnurman of the law firm of Zalman & Schnurman, who says he has been contacted by another hotel patron reporting bedbug bites. (Helen Peterson, New York Daily News, Mar. 9; “Pair Suing Hotel Over Bedbugs Bites Return”, AP/Washington Post, Mar. 9).

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