Is My Landlord Liable If I Have Cockroaches in My Apartment?

Yes, your landlord is liable for cockroaches in your apartment. If your apartment has cockroaches, your landlord is liable for any injuries that you suffer as a legal result of the cockroach infestation. Not only that, but also your landlord is liable for breaching the implied warranty of habitability when you have cockroaches in your apartment. Every lease contains an implied warranty of habitability. This warranty promises that the apartment to be leased is fit for basic human habitation. If your apartment has cockroaches, your landlord can be held liable. For a cockroach liability lawyer, contact the Normandie Law Firm. Our lawyers are experienced in the field of apartment cockroach problems and they will ensure that your rights are protected.

Diseases and Health Hazards from Living with Cockroaches
Many people don’t realize it, but living with cockroaches can be dangerous to your health. Cockroaches on their own are not “dirty” or “filthy.” They are just a pest like any other pest that can infest a home and get into the walls of an apartment to procreate.

Cockroaches in the apartment are able to spread diseases and become a health hazard. If you have cockroaches in the apartment, you may also be exposed to health hazards such as:

• Enterococcus
• Pseudomonas
• Entamoeba histolytica
• Enterobacteriaceae
• Staphylococcus
• Mycobacterium
• Bacillus

If you think about it, a ladybug infestation is just as likely to get into a home, through cracks in the windows. But in general, people don’t associate negative connotations with ladybugs, and here is why. Your landlord is liable for getting rid of a cockroach infestation in the apartment, as the landlord is responsible for all repairs in the apartment as long as you are renting there under a rental contract.

Cockroaches Carry Deadly Micro-Organisms
A cockroach infestation that produces a massive number of cockroaches in the apartment, can definitely be hazardous to your health. This is because cockroaches can carry a number of micro-organisms that will stick to the surface of their bodies, and also be inside of their fecal pellets. The feces of a cockroach are associated with diseases, and it can get into your food. When the feces of a cockroach get into your food, it can then affect you with food-born pathogens, food spoilage or other organisms such as diseases that will harm your body.

There are a host of other issues that can be hazardous to your health if you have cockroaches in the apartment. These are human health hazards from interactions with:

• Salmonella spp., which cause gastroenteritis, food poisoning
• Morganella morganii which causes wound infections
• Staphylococcus aureus which causes wound infections, skin infections, and infections of internal organs
• Salmonella pyogenes which causes pneumonia
• Serratia spp., which can cause food poisoning
• Streptococcus faecalis and other species, which can cause pneumonia
• Nocardia spp., which causes actinomycetoma infections of skin tissues
• Oligella urethralis which may cause bacteremia, septic arthritis
• Pantoea spp., which can cause wound infections
• Salmonella typhi which causes typhoid

If you have had a problem with cockroaches in the apartment, you need to call your landlord to try to get this situation taken care of for you. If your landlord or property owner, property manager, or property management company is not responsive to your needs to get this situation cleared up, then you need to give us a call immediately.

There Is No Need to Wait If Your Landlord Refuses to Clean Up Your Cockroach Infestation
You know that you have a problem with cockroaches in the apartment, and if you have advised your landlord, he or she knows you have a problem too. Even with the pandemic going strong, it is possible to get an essential worker out to you to your apartment, to clear up the cockroach infestation. Cockroaches are hardy insect pests, they can survive on very little: such as food, water and shelter. They have all they need in the common bathroom or kitchen, that is why they thrive in those areas.

You are likely to see a cockroach in a bathroom or kitchen too, especially if you share common building or structural pipes with other rental tenants at the property. It may be the case that all the cockroaches have to do is to crawl down the pipes, to stop in and freeload along the pipe system in an apartment complex.

If you are ready to get this ball rolling, you can get the relief you need from the personal injuries you have had regarding the cockroach infestation in your apartment. Just call us now, and you will be connected with an attorney who can help you right now.

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We are very sensitive to how you feel about having cockroaches in the apartment. We also understand that you may need advice on how the lawsuit is going, even if you have started the lawsuit for this case with someone else. We are here for you to offer to you a second opinion for free. Just give us a call today, and we can talk to you about your case regarding cockroaches in the apartment.

Can I Sue My Landlord for Being Liable
If I Have Cockroaches in My Apartment?
Yes, we can sue, because cockroaches in the apartment can cause a host of human health hazards, that can be very dangerous to your health. These hazards can include contracting or “getting” the following diseases from exposure to cockroaches, such as:

• Hookworms
• Strongyloides stercoralis
• Taenia/Echinococcus spp.
• Enterobius vermicularis
• Hymenolepis nana
• coli
• Giardia lamblia
• Cryptosporidium sp.
• Ascaris lumbricoides
• Trichuris trichiura

If you have cockroaches in the apartment, then you need to call our Los Angeles case lawyers immediately. We are here to give you peace of mind, and we can file a lawsuit on your behalf. If you have had to live with cockroaches in the apartment, then you need to bring an action against a landlord who is not taking care of your rental property.

In this case, you need to be with a knowledgeable attorney from our law office, who is there for you at every step. We are here and can expertly evaluate your case of cockroaches in the apartment. Your case will turn on how well you can present your personal injuries, and we are the right law firm to help you get the desired response you deserve. All that you need to do is to call our case attorneys in Los Angeles. Just call us at the Normandie Law Firm, and we can sue for you, and get you the recovery compensation that you need for a lawsuit on the merits of cockroaches in the apartment.

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