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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.
On Jan. 17, the Arizona Department of Economic Security reported 17,993 unemployment insurance initial claims or first-time claims the next week, the state reported 48,361 initial claims. Two weeks later, the state reported 79,598 initial claims as businesses and employees across the Valley began to report unemployment fraud.
Businesses and employees in the East Valley were experiencing the same problem employers had received correspondence from the DES that their employees and in some cases, people that had never worked for the company had filed for unemployment insurance. In the case of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce, President and CEO Terri Kimble said she not only got notice for her employees but for two other people who had never been employed with the chamber.