Former Fox News Employee Sues Over Bedbugs in the Office
A former Fox News employee has filed a lawsuit that claims bedbugs at work have caused her post-traumatic stress syndrome.
The employee, Jane Clark, says she was bitten three times over the course of seven months and she often caught bedbugs crawling on her desk, ABC News reports. The suit names the owner and manager of the office tower in Manhattan where Fox employees worked. She has filed a separate workers compensation claim against Fox, Reuters reports.
Clark, who worked for Fox for 12 years, said she was ridiculed after complaining to human resources about the insects, but the office was not treated for months, according to the Reuters account. She kept her office chair covered in a plastic bag and removed her clothes outside the door of her home to keep from bringing the critters inside her house.
Now she says she has nightmares about bedbugs, leading her to wake up and frantically search the sheets for the insects, the ABC News story says. “I’m terrified of bringing [the bugs] home to my family,” she said. “I see things crawling on the walls that aren’t really there.”
Clark is represented by lawyer Alan Schnurman, who says he has brought several bedbug cases.
