Barrington Carbon Monoxide Victim Suing Hotel

The Barrington man who suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning in a South Charleston, W.Va., hotel is suing a host of companies for his injuries, according to the Charleston Daily Mail newspaper.

Bain Edmondson and his wife, Dawn, of Little Street, are suing Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites in Kanawha County Circuit Court, according to a newspaper story today, April 12. Also listed in the lawsuit are Pikes Inc., the manager of the hotel; Holiday Hospitality Franchising Inc., and InterContinental Hotels Group Resources Inc., which owns stock in the subsidiary companies.

Edmondson, an employee of Rosciti Construction Group of Rhode Island, said he continues to suffer from neuronal cell death, cognitive impairment, and pulmonary and cardiac damage after carbon monoxide seeped into his room from a defective swimming pool exhaust.

“They called me a medical miracle,” Edmondson told Patch of the doctors at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, W.Va. He said he had more than 40 percent carbon monoxide in his blood when he was pulled out of the Holiday Inn Express room with a Warwick man who died. He was treated in a hyperbaric chamber that saved his life.