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July 1, 2016

NYC contractor will testify in lawsuit over fatal fire

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A contractor who initially took the blame for accidentally starting a fire in Connecticut that killed his girlfriend's three children and her parents on Christmas morning in 2011 will testify in a wrongful-death lawsuit and turn over documents, his lawyer said Thursday.

A state judge in Hartford had called a hearing for Thursday after the New York City contractor, Michael Borcina, failed to turn over documents for the lawsuit proceedings, missed a deposition and appeared to go missing. Borcina's lawyer, Robert Laney, said Borcina had not disappeared, but declined to elaborate.


 
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