National Union Fire Insurance v. Guardtronic, Inc.

Olly Neal, Judge.

In August of 1994, a fire occurred at the Crain Industries foam manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, causing substantial property damage and the death of one employee. Appellees Guardtronic and National Guardian provided fire detection equipment and monitoring services to the plant. In 1996, Crain’s property and casualty insurer, appellant National Union Fire Insurance Company, having paid Crain over eleven million dollars in policy proceeds, sued appellees alleging inter alia that appellees’ systems failed to send a timely signal to the monitoring stations and, in turn, the…