Insurer for Schenectady’s Stockade Inn sues two contractors for alleged faulty work that escalated 2020 fire | The Daily Gazette
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Insurer for Schenectady’s Stockade Inn sues two contractors for alleged faulty work that escalated 2020 fire
By Brian Lee |
March 9, 2021
The Stockade Inn, left, and the Stockade Inn s badly fire-damaged first floor kitchen in January 2020. - File Photos
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SCHENECTADY Substandard work by two contractors escalated what should have been a minor kitchen fire at the Stockade Inn in January 2020, to an extensive blaze, the lawyer for the inn’s then-owner said in court papers.
The fire suppression system failed to activate during the Jan. 16, 2020 fire, and areas of the inn hadn’t been properly cleaned of grease by a second vendor, lawyer Daniel W. Coffey of Albany said in a lawsuit in state Supreme Court. It was filed Thursday on behalf of the insurance carrier for Gregor Hotels, the inn’s owner at the time of t