Another Hawai'i resident has sued the California Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, alleging she suffered bedbug bites during a stay there in late 2003.

Linda R. Duarte of Maui filed the suit in federal court in Honolulu this week, alleging she has suffered permanent medical damages as a result of the bites and of chemical spray applied to her room after she reported the incident.

John Yamano, a Hawai'i attorney who represented the California Hotel & Casino in a similar suit filed here last year, could not be reached for comment late yesterday.

The earlier suit was filed by Hawai'i resident Jeanine Freitas and alleged she and her husband suffered bedbug bites during a stay at the hotel in 2006.

The hotel denied Freitas' charges. The suit was dismissed earlier this year.

Hawai'i lawyer Eric Seitz filed both lawsuits.

He claimed in the new suit that the hotel provided no information to Duarte about what happened to her from December 2003 to August 2006, when an official "confirmed for the first time that she had been exposed to bed bugs in her hotel room."

The hotel also advised Duarte that a pest control company had sprayed her room with "highly toxic chemicals" before she and her companion were moved to another room in the hotel.