The suit cites honda s 2008 13.
Body shop lawsuit for roof.
They would both be extricated after sustaining further injuries from the fire.
The lawyer for the crash victims asserts that insurer pressure to cut costs caused the body shop to fix the car s roof with glue rather than oem specified welds.
Tracy and the seebachans have refiled a lawsuit against state farm for its alleged role in influencing the roof repair which used an adhesive instead of being welded.
The couple s attorney todd tracy claims the insurance giant forced the body shop to use the adhesive rather than welding the roof.
Both the passenger and driver were essentially crushed by the roof sealed in a broken vehicle being consumed by fire.
Texas couple seeks 1m from body shop that glued car roof.
State farm released a statement to nbc 5 saying.
Instead of welding the roof.
Their lawyer argues that this outcome which barely avoided being the worst case scenario was due to a body shop performing sub standard work.
Experts for the plaintiffs said in court documents that the severity of the crash and the seebachans injuries were the result of the body shop adhesive bonding the fit s roof during a 8 500.
According to john eagle s body shop director boyce willis state farm wouldn t pay the shop unless the repair was done according to its specifications as opposed to honda s.