Insurance likely won’t cover Corral fire damage

  Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 Source: Independent Record

More than 30 people may have suffered damage to their homes and property during the 2012 Corral fire, which burned more than 1,800 acres in and around the Scratchgravel Hills. But the insurance policies held by Robert Fitte, who accidentally started the fire, will not have enough coverage — probably $1.3 million — to make all those property owners whole, say lawyers involved in the case, and the distribution of those funds has yet to be determined. “We just want to go about it in a way that’s right for anybody,” said Randall Nelson, a Billings attorney representing Fitte’s insurer, Mountain West Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co., said Thursday. “It’s just a really unfortunate situation from our standpoint and we hope that everybody gets the best possible outcome they can, given the limited resources.” Fitte’s homeowner policy would bring maximum payouts of $300,000. A federal magistrate in August agreed with Tom Budewitz, representing another landowner, and ruled that a
$1 million business policy also applies because Fitte started the fire burning slash from a 70-foot tree he cut down to protect both his home and his home-based business.

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