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An inspection company and property management company claim a building inspector assumed risk of harm and contributed to his own injuries when the stairs at a foreclosed Glen Carbon property collapsed, causing him to fall into the basement.
Plaintiff Thomas Harpstrite filed his original complaint on April 1 in Madison County Circuit Court. He then filed an amended complaint on April 30 in order to correctly name the defendants. Truist Bank was incorrectly named as BB&T Bank, and Safeguard Properties Management LLC was incorrectly named as Safeguard Properties LLC. The suit also names GMH Inspections Inc. as a defendant.
Safeguard Properties Management answered the complaint on April 27 through attorney Richard Korn of Fox Smith LLC in St. Louis, denying liability. Korn filed a similar answer on behalf of GMH Inspections on May 3.
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EDWARDSVILLE A property inspector claims he suffered multiple injuries when a staircase collapsed, causing him to fall into the basement of a Glen Carbon building.
Thomas Harpstrite filed a complaint April 1 in the Madison County Circuit Court against GMH Inspections, Safeguard Properties LLC and BB&T Bank, alleging negligence.
Harpstrite alleges in his complaint that he was inspecting property in Glen Carbon on Oct. 15, 2020, when he fell into the basement as the basement stairs suddenly collapsed. He claims that as a result of his fall, he suffered injuries to his leg, hip and back and has incurred medical treatment expenses.