A Connecticut company doing business overseas is fending off litigation, after finding itself at the center of a tragedy that took place nearly 9,000 miles away.

Shelton-based Dynata LLC operated a call-center in Davao City, Philippines, where 38 people died in a fire, according to litigation playing out in Waterbury Superior Court. But it allegedly put profits over safety, according to the complaint by Waterbury-based solo attorney Joseph DeCicco, the court-appointed administrator of the workers’ estates.