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BENTON – Jurors in U.S. district court awarded Thiems Construction of Roxana $1 million in punitive damages on April 8, finding its former insurer United Fire put its own interest ahead of the company’s interest.
Jurors found United Fire must also reimburse the company for a punitive damage award of $904,019.71 from the Madison County trial.
Late owner Gary Thiems personally paid that amount in 2015. He died in 2016.
The underlying suit involved erosion from the Fox Creek subdivision construction site in Edwardsville to a lake on property of Fred and Juanita Steinkuehler.
They sued Thiems Construction in 2010, and they added a claim for punitive damages as trial approached in 2013.
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