Envy Apartment

A federal appeals court has significantly reduced a punitive damages award returned in a lawsuit filed against an apartment complex by a woman who suffered severe brain damage from carbon monoxide poisoning . The case involved injuries suffered by Amber Lompe at her home in the Sunridge Apartments in February 2011, when a gas leak from a furnace at the apartment complex caused her to suffer a severe brain injury from exposure to carbon monoxide . As a result of the leak, carbon monoxide levels in Lompe’s apartment reached 500 parts per million, which is more than ten times higher than what is considered a safe exposure. Ten days after the incident, the complex provided her with a carbon monoxide detector and destroyed the furnace, which she argued at trial was an effort to destroy evidence in the case. At trial before a federal jury in Wyoming, Lompe was awarded $2.65 million in compensatory damages, as well as an additional $25.5 million in punitive damages against Sunridge...

A jury awarded $28.2 million to a woman who was poisoned by carbon monoxide at the Sunridge Apartments in Casper in what could be one of the largest civil judgments in state history. “What I have been told is it’s the largest personal injury verdict in the state of Wyoming,” said Tyson Logan, an attorney from the Jackson law firm that represented the woman, the Spence Law Firm . Amber Lompe, now 23, was poisoned by her furnace in 2011. She has a permanent brain injury that affects her memory, concentration, processing speed, attention and ability to multi-task, Lompe said Friday afternoon. “When I moved in there, I assumed everything was checked out and it was safe for me to live in,” she said. Before the poisoning, Sunridge’s owner and manager ignored warnings that the furnaces were dangerous and needed to be fixed or replaced. After the poisoning, the 30-year-old furnace in Lompe’s apartment was removed. Logan said the removal of the unit was part of a cover-up. On Dec. 20, a j...

A federal appeals court has drastically reduced the punitive damages jury award to a woman who suffered severe injuries from carbon monoxide poisoning in her apartment, in a closely watched case . Amber Nicole Lompe , a then 20-year-old college student, was exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide from a malfunctioning furnace in her apartment at the Sunridge Apartments in Casper, Wyoming, in February 2011, according to Friday's ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver in Amber Nicole Lompe v. Sunridge Partners L.L.C.; Apartment Management Consultants L.L.C. Ms. Lompe was evacuated from her apartment unit and taken to the hospital after a gas company employee detected high levels of carbon monoxide emanating from her apartment. She was treated for acute carbon monoxide poisoning , and as result of the incident has suffered from various neurological conditions including cognitive deficits , chronic headache, sleep disturbance and emotional disorders. She ...

HUD Update of Manufactured Home Standards Coming Soon? The agency has a proposed rule under OIRA review, with an NPRM to be published in September 2017. Aug 25, 2017 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development apparently is about to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would update the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards by adopting certain recommendations made to HUD by the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee , known as MHCC. The agency has a proposed rule currently under OIRA review, with an NPRM to be published in September 2017. According to the reginfo.gov website, the proposed rule is based on the third set of MHCC recommendations to update and improve various aspects of the Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards. It would add new standards that would establish requirements for carbon monoxide detection , stairways, fire safety considerations for attached garages, and for draftstops when there is a usable s...