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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Merchants Mutual Ins. v. Face Place, Inc., 20 Mass. L. Rptr. 511 (2006)

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Merchants Mutual Ins. v. Face Place, Inc., 20 Mass. L. Rptr. 511 (2006)
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Merchants Mutual Ins. v. Face Place, Inc., 20 Mass. L. Rptr. 511 (2006)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
2006-02-10

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The commercial tenants called four expert witnesses.2 Each of these experts disagreed with Malcolm’s opinion that the toaster oven was the cause of the fire. Like Malcolm, each of these experts was highly qualified in the field of fire investigation. They included Captain James Gallagher of the Hanover Fire Department, a certified fire investigator who has investigated over seventy-five fires of questionable origin; Richard Fain, a forensic electrical engineer who has given expert testimony in all the New England states; Michael Dorn, a retired trooper with the Fire Marshal’s Office who has investigated about fifteen hundred fires; and Thomas Klem, who has testified as a fire investigation expert witness some seventy times. Each of these witnesses opined that the fire did not start at the toaster oven. Instead, they opined that the fire started in the enclosed space above the suspended ceiling where the fluorescent light fixture was located.