To date, no one has taken legal responsibility for over $700,000 worth of damage to the building occupied by QuidelOrtho — one of Athens’ largest employers — during a fire training exercise in September 2023.
Currently, insurance companies representing various defendants keep pointing their fault fingers at each other and no one is taking responsibility for the damage. As a result, a lawsuit has been filed in the Athens County Common Pleas Court involving the owner of the building East State Street Development Co., LLC and five local fire departments.
Currently, there is one lawsuit filed by the building’s owner and two crossclaims between defendants fighting over who should pay for any damages. That means there are really three lawsuits in one…