Emergency workers respond to the scene of an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York on March 12, 2014. (Photo: Jeremy Sailing/AP)
Con Ed refused to accept the tender, saying the lawsuits at issue alleged negligence by the city that was "wholly independent from and unrelated to the work performed pursuant to" the permits.
January 03, 2020 at 05:47 PM
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New York City on Friday asked a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to order Con Ed to pay its legal fees and take over the defense of nearly 60 lawsuits stemming from a deadly gas explosion in 2014.
In a 13-page complaint, the city Law Department argued that Consolidated Edison Co. of New York was ignoring its obligations to defend the lawsuits under a series of permits it received from the city Department of Transportation in 2011 to perform work at the ill-fated East Harlem work site.
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