Legionnaire’s Disease Case Against Hotel Franchise Stands, Judge Rules

Mealey's (April 12, 2018, 2:16 PM EDT) -- COVINGTON, Ky. — A federal judge in Kentucky on April 10 denied a hotel company’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former employee who contracted Legionnaire’s disease while performing maintenance duties, concluding that the work the man was doing when he was exposed to the Legionnaire’s bacteria was not was “regular or recurring” (Paul Tarter v. AP/AIM Rivercenter Suites, No. 16-78, E.D. Ky.; 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60295)....