By John F. "Skip" Coleman, Technical Editor
No one should dispute the fact that the United States is becoming a more litigious society. When I first came on the job, the term "sovereign immunity" was the norm, simply meaning that the sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is therefore immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution.
This changed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Toledo was involved in a legal case in the mid-1980s that has become a landmark case in the legal industry. This fire involved the Willis Day Storage Company: A 15-acre warehouse burned down in one very long evening and morning. I personally went through eight breathing air bottles at that fire before we exhausted our entire city supply.
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