Smolen | Gaul & Associates
PITTSBURGH – An Erie insurance company is litigating on behalf of 17 of its policyholders who all lost personal property and possessions in a storage unit fire two years ago, claiming that the defendants’ negligence in failing to verify the operation of the unit’s sprinkler system led to the severity of the fire at issue.
Erie Insurance Exchange (a/s/o Joseph and Susan Leader, William Dobransky, William Doyle, Shelley and Lon Farr, Linda Frank, Nathaniel Franskousky, Charles and Judith Hartman, Michael Kumnik, Michael Lieb, Anthony Mauro, Quinn Passarelli, Gary Ruhle, Mark Schmidt and Stephen Yarnot) of Erie filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on April 9 versus OFFICExpress, LLC and SX Management, LLC (doing business as “STORExpress”) of Wexford, EKM Construction, Inc. of Burlington, N.C. and Approved Fire Protection, Inc. of Greenburg.