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Is This A "Stupid" Lawsuit?
Category: Torts For Our Time
Call me crazy, but I think this tenant has a perfectly valid complaint. I will allow you to read this story from the Houston Chronicle and decide for yourself. My only comment would be that it is extremely rare for apartments to explode during a roach kill.
GALVESTON - A woman who was burned in a flash fire after 18 bug bombs were set off to kill roaches in her apartment has filed a lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages from former landlord Marion Tompkins.But Tompkins said Tuesday Myra Miles-Brown's lawsuit is "stupid."
"It's a bunch of baloney," said Tompkins, owner of the Mesquite Woods Apartments on Delaney Road in La Marque.
Attorney Anthony Buzbee said Miles-Brown suffered second-degree burns, a back injury and hearing loss when a Feb. 3 explosion caused by bug bombs a maintenance man was setting blew out brick walls, windows and doors.
Miles-Brown has scars on her face and arms but is no longer being treated for burns, he said.
"The maintenance man was trying to put 30 bug bombs into her one apartment," Buzbee said. "He got to number 18 before the apartment blew up."
Buzbee filed the suit Friday seeking damages from Hitchcock Housing Ltd., Tompkins' firm.
Buzbee said investigators still are trying to determine what set off the explosion as the apartment maintenance man was activating the bug bombs.
Miles-Brown and the maintenance man, whose identity was not available Tuesday, were taken to the University of Texas Medical Branch for treatment. She was released after an overnight stay, Buzbee said.
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