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Article: Oconomowoc renter wants payback from Dorner
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- Daily Reporter (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2009
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If the insurance company's lawsuit fails, the man who rented an
Oconomowoc home that blew up in an April 2008 gas explosion says he
will take on Dorner Inc. himself.
"Even if it's only $10,000 or $5,000, whatever, you know?" said
Thomas Lemieux, who rented the house. "Just the simple fact of some
satisfaction so I don't look back 20 years from now and say, 'They
burned down my house and did nothing.'"
Lemieux is one of three Oconomowoc residents involved in a State
Farm Fire & Casualty Co. lawsuit against Luxemburg-based Dorner, its
insurer and We Energies. In April 2008, Dorner broke an underground
natural gas pipe owned by We Energies, and the leaking gas ignited,
blowing up and destroying ...