UPDATED: Jury sides with soy oil company in Sunnyside Country Club fire
Authorities said rags used to clean kitchen equipment at
The blaze caused almost
The insurance company claimed Asoyia failed to properly label its products with warnings rags used to clean its Ultra Low Linolenic Acid Soybean Oil can catch fire even after being laundered.
The lawsuit was sidelined for a number years while a federal court sorted out Asoyia's own insurance coverage issues, and trial on the underlying lawsuit began
On Wednesday, jurors returned a verdict finding Asoyia wasn't at fault.
Attorney
"It was a good result," McCoy said.
Asoyia's attorneys said safety information was given to distributors, although no such product in the industry has warning labels on the containers.
They also noted at the time of the fire country club staff had increased the heat setting on the dryer because the washing machine's spin cycle wasn't working and then skipped the dryer's cool-down cycle before removing the rags.
Court records indicate before the fire there was an incident at the club where laundered rags began to smoke and were taken outside when flames sprouted. This had promoted staff to change the laundry protocol, but those changes were not passed on to the worker who did laundry on the night of the fire, records state.
Damages for the fire totaled
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