New Plaintiffs File Suit In Carbon Monoxide Incident

Less than one week after the settlement of a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit filed last year by the family of two Pennsylvania tourists who died of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in a Boardwalk motel room in 2006, five separate plaintiffs inflicted with CO poisoning in adjacent rooms during the same incident filed suit in U.S. District Court.

Five of the plaintiffs were in the two of the rooms on the first floor of the motel and suffered directly from CO poisoning and were later hospitalized. The other five plaintiffs were either husbands or parents, or both, of the five victims and were indirectly affected by the incident.

Carbon monoxide detectors were not required at the time. However, because of this incident, Ocean City passed a law requiring them in hotels, condominiums and new homes.

The health effects of exposure to carbon monoxide (depending on the degree of concentration) can include:

• Fatigue in people who are healthy
• Cheat pains in people suffering from heart disease
• Headaches
• Impaired vision
• Poor coordination
• Nausea
• Confusion
• Dizziness
• Death, which can even occur if the person is exposed to concentrations under 1%.

If you or someone you love was seriously injured because there was a hazardous toxin or another condition on the premise that could have and should have been remedied, you may have grounds for filing a premises liability claim or a wrongful death lawsuit.