{"id":937235,"date":"2025-06-07T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937235"},"modified":"2025-06-07T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:47:40","slug":"how-google-reviews-helped-us-couple-to-win-2-million-bed-bug-lawsuit-against-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/07\/how-google-reviews-helped-us-couple-to-win-2-million-bed-bug-lawsuit-against-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google reviews helped US couple to win $2 million &#8216;bed bug lawsuit&#8217; against hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California couple has won a $2 million award in a &#8220;bed bug lawsuit&#8221; against The Shores Inn in Ventura, California. The couple was able to win this lawsuit after Google and Yelp reviews helped to establish the hotel&#8217;s prior knowledge of the infestation. Alvaro Gutierrez and Ramiro Sanchez filed the lawsuit following a February 2020 stay at the hotel, which they claimed left them with &#8220;painful bed bug bites, severe skin rash, allergic reaction, scarring and personal injuries over the entirety of their bodies,&#8221; according to the complaint obtained by USA Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California couple has won a $2 million award in a &#8220;bed bug lawsuit&#8221; against The Shores Inn in Ventura, California. The couple was able to win this lawsuit after Google and Yelp reviews helped to establish the hotel&#8217;s prior knowledge of the infestation. Alvaro Gutierrez and Ramiro Sanchez filed the lawsuit following a February 2020 stay at the hotel, which they claimed left them with &#8220;painful bed bug bites, severe skin rash, allergic reaction, scarring and personal injuries over the entirety of their bodies,&#8221; according to the complaint obtained by USA Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}