Haghighi v. Mercury Casualty Co. CA4/2
Haghighi owns a two-story, four-unit apartment building in Barstow, California. According to Haghighi, someone vandalized the property on August 3, 2016. At the time, only one of the units was rented out, and that tenant had been out of town on that date. Haghighi had managed the property himself beginning in January 2016, and he testified that from that time he stayed in a second unit two or three days a week, when he came to the property from his home in Los Angeles. According to Haghighi, the damage from the August 3, 2016 vandalism was profound. In addition to substantial breakage and theft, the vandals caused flooding, including by stealing dishwashers and copper pipes for the water heater, leaving water “spewing all over the place.” The flooding caused, among other things, the ceiling of one of the lower units to collapse.
Haghighi reported the damage and filed a claim with Mercury on September 29, 2016.
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