A Jersey City landlord agreed on Jan. 6 to pay $2 million to settle a suit over the carbon-monoxide poisoning deaths of two tenants three weeks apart in the same apartment, Ferreras v. Ad Far.
Rosario Ferreras, 24, died on April 4, 2011, from carbon monoxide that built up because of a blocked hot water heater flue. Police investigators also discovered the apartment had no carbon-monoxide detector and there was an unopened box of them in the basement, says Barry D. Epstein ofRochelle Park, who represents Ferreras’ estate.
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