Several former tenants are suing the owner of a Newport Beach apartment complex over claims of mold, which one couple said caused them serious health problems.
An attorney for the couple, Mark Nadeski and Anne Armogida, says their illnesses may be lifelong.
“It’s just heartbreaking to see that she’ll never have the life she used to have,” Nadeski said in an emotional interview with ABC7, referring to Armogida.
The building owner already sued a contractor and received millions of dollars in a settlement.
Nadeski and Armogida say it’s been eight years since they lived at the Newport Bluffs Apartment Village. They say while they were there they started having skin issues, rashes and worse.
“We were cognitively affected,” Nadeski said, “and she just couldn’t — you know, struggles to form sentences, to remember things. And then then she started getting really physically ill.”
The couple, along with more than a dozen former residents, filed a lawsuit claiming the apartment complex had problems with water and mold.