The Kimberly-Clark fire in Ontario California, who's insurance is going to be on the hook?
Kimberly-Clark was leasing the warehouse in Ontario California. They had a contract with NFI Industries to run their distribution. Chamel Abdulkarim Worked for NFI and intentionally set fire to the Products in the warehouse. In the videos that he recorded as he set the fire he said, "They should have paid us a living wage." The Fire got so bad that the fire suppression in the warehouse was unable to put the fire out, and the facility has been written off as a total loss.
Did NFI have any kind of duty to prevent this from happening? I know that Abdulkarim is liable because of tort law, but does the intentional nature of this have any impact on NFI's liability? Since Kimberly-Clark was the lessee, do they have liability to make the owners of the warehouse whole, or is that something the owners will have to pursue with NFI? Sorry, I'm not a professional or anything just curious.