Articles by Lessing E. Gold

A decision recently rendered in Illinois involved a requirement that a property be retrofitted with an automatic sprinkler system. The municipality had previously mandated that commercial buildings be retrofitted with the fire/life safety solutions. The ordinance excluded multiple residence dwellings from the retrofit sprinkler requirement.

A worker claiming unsafe working conditions sought unemployment benefits after quitting is role as a technician with a fire services company.   

A man trapped for five days after a fire tore through an apartment building filed a suit seeking compensation to punish the defendant.

Website operators who seek to bind visitors to the terms of an arbitration agreement must make those terms “reasonably conspicuous” under the law.

A woman alleged a defective smoke alarm led to severe burns on her hand while frying chicken. An appellate court decided otherwise.

An insurer sues an alarm company for failing to respond when a subscriber’s pipes burst, but a lack of a contract negates the claim.

When a building burns down, a lawsuit arises around a contract waiver between an alarm company, a building owner, and the insurance company.

A lawsuit against a city hinges on whether their false alarm ordinance is considered a tax or a fee.