Fox Employee Says Work Bugs Her
A woman who works as a satellite feed coordinator for Fox News has filed a personal injury lawsuit in Manhattan's state Supreme Court against the landlord of the office building where she works, according to an article on Law.com. Jane Clark claims that she was bitten by bedbugs last year at work and as a result of the bites suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Clark alleges that an investigation determined that the source of the bedbugs was another Fox employee who unwittingly brought the bugs to work with him.
Ms. Clark's personal injury lawyer has experience with bedbug cases, but says this is the first time that he knows of that someone has been bitten by bedbugs at work. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from the buildings owners, a management company and two maintenance companies. Interestingly enough, Clark's employer is not named as a defendant in the case although the injury allegedly happened at work. Perhaps the reasoning for that is simple enough - employers can rarely be sued for workplace injuries as they are generally covered by workers' compensation insurance regardless of fault.