Voronezh regional court changed the decision in the case of gas explosion

The judicial board for civil cases of the Voronezh Regional Court considered the appeal of the gas distribution organization against the decision of the district court in the case of an explosion of household gas in a residential building. As it was established, in January 2024, a household gas explosion occurred in a residential building in Voronezh: a man who was in the house received thermal burns, from which he died in a medical institution, and the owner of the house suffered significant material damage.

The cause of the leak was damage to the pipeline as a result of its interaction with the electric cable. The district court satisfied the claims partially: from the gas distribution organization and another company as owners of sources of increased danger, 2 million rubles of compensation for moral damage and 117,000 rubles of funeral expenses were jointly and severally recovered in favor of the relative of the deceased, and in favor of the owner of the house - 4,600,748.40 rubles of material damage; also from the defendants a state fee was collected.

The representative of the gas distribution organization appealed this decision to a higher authority. Having studied the materials of the case, the judicial board came to the conclusion that it is necessary to change the decision of the district court: the operative part is supplemented by an indication of refusal to satisfy the claims of the relative of the deceased to three other organizations, and the joint and several collection of state duty from the gas distribution organization and the second company is canceled - the costs of paying the state duty are recovered from each of the defendants in equal shares.

In the rest of the case, the district court's decision was upheld, the appeal was upheld; the judicial acts had entered into force.