A federal jury of eight women has returned a $3.4 million verdict for plaintiff United States Fire Insurance Co. in a flooding subrogation case in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
With Hurricane Sandy brewing in the background, the jury found that the flooding from a severe rainstorm in 2009 was escalated by an improperly narrow culvert owned by a company called Omnova Solutions. Omnova was downstream from F.C. Meyer Packaging Co., which collected roughly $3.4 million from its insurer for losses of its equipment, inventory and office supplies, and labor to fix damage after the storm.
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