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| Avon Lake |
| Insurance Rates
Skyrocket For Steingass’s Former Client, City Of Avon Lake
The City of Avon Lake had hired Steingass to do plumbing and fire protection
work on their Courthouse and Safety Center. However, when a Steingass-installed
fire protection sprinkler burst, flooding the judge’s chambers with 300
gallons of water per minute, left the court room floors under three inches
of water, destroyed court records, carpeting and law books, the City of Avon
Lake was sure to be drenched with higher insurance costs.
After Avon Lake filed a $150,000 damages claim with their insurer,
Guaranty National, over the water damage, Guaranty responded by raising
their rates 80 percent. |
| DISCRIMINATION |
| Steingass Must
Pay $20,000 To Its Employees To Settle Discrimination Suit
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found reasonable cause that
Steingass Mechanical discriminated against 36 persons who were fired,
demoted or refused jobs. The NLRB has ordered over $20,000 in payments to
the wronged workers, according to a December 21, 2002 published account in
The Plain Dealer. |
| WAGE VIOLATIONS |
| State Of Ohio
Investigates Steingass For Multiple Wage Violations |
| In the following
instances, the State of Ohio is investigating whether Steingass Mechanical
Contracting violated State law that regulates wage payments to its workers.
If the complaint is finalized, Steingass will be required to shell out back
pay to its employees, possibly in the amounts of thousands of dollars.
Recently, the State of Ohio has required Steingass to pay over $100,000 to
its short-changed workers in similar cases. |
| NAME OF JOB |
DATE |
CASE # |
| Oriana House |
8/2/01 |
01-317-2A |
| Oriana House |
7/18/01 |
01-317-2 |
| Ohio Veterans Home |
10/31/00 |
00-551-2 |
| University of
Akron/ Knight Chemistry Lab |
6/27/00 |
00-352-2 |
| Kent State |
6/6/00 |
00-317-2 |
| Fairview Park
Senior Center |
5/23/00 |
00-268-2A |
| College of Urban
Affairs |
5/15/00 |
00-281-2 |
| Avon Lake Safety
Center |
5/15/00 |
00-280-2 |
| Fairview Park
Senior Center |
5/11/00 |
00-268-2 |
| Portage-Geauga
Juvenile Detention Cntr. |
7/1/99 |
99-287-2 |
| New Educational
Facility |
4/25/94 |
93-377 |
| Medina County
Achievement Center |
4/25/94 |
93-378 |
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| In The Previous
Issue... |
| In
the previous issue of The Contrac-tors Critic, LASER published a news
flash suggesting that Steingass may have been involved in a fire at a
nursing home in Navarre, Ohio. The fire was caused when a backhoe struck a
gas line. However, after further investigation, LASER discovered that in
this particular case, Steingass was not involved. The backhoe was being
operated by an employee of another company. |
   
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