ST. LOUIS – The owner of a six-story commercial hotel in St. Louis alleges the property suffered water damage after an exterminator hired to take care of bedbugs overheated a room and activated the sprinkler system.
Apple Nine Missouri LLC, doing business as Hampton Inn & Suites St. Louis @ Forest Park, filed a complaint on Sept. 12 in the St. Louis Circuit Court against Roberts Pest Control LLC alleging property damage.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on May 3, 2017, it retained the defendant's services to exterminate bedbugs in one of the rooms in the property. The suit states the defendant used equipment to heat the room to a temperature that would exterminate the bedbugs, but the room overheated and activated the property's sprinkler system, causing water damage to several rooms and furniture and loss of revenue.
The plaintiff holds Roberts Pest Control LLC responsible because the defendant's employee allegedly fell asleep while performing extermination services, failed to monitor the warming device and failed to take quick and responsive action when the room overheated.
The plaintiff seeks judgment against the defendant of more than $25,000, plus costs, fees and interest and all other relief that are proper and just. It is represented by Mark G. McMahon and Michael B. Hill of Law Offices of Mark G. McMahon in Clayton.
St. Louis Circuit Court case number 1822-CC11207