MATTER OF LAS VEGAS HILTON HOTEL FIRE

No. 15613.

706 P.2d 137 (1985)

In the Matter of the LAS VEGAS HILTON HOTEL FIRE LITIGATION. INTERMOUNTAIN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, INC., a Utah corporation; Savings Plus Systems, Inc., a Missouri corporation; Kanney Marketing Services, a division of Neil J. Kanney, Inc., a foreign corporation; Spelts-Bailey, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, formerly doing business as United Bank Services Co., Inc., a Nebraska corporation; Meermans Advertising Co., Inc., an Ohio corporation, doing business as Meermans Advertising Co., formerly known as W.R. Meermans; Financial Programs, Inc., an Ohio corporation, doing business as J. Francis Walsh Company; Patrick R. Conway & Associates, Inc., a Minnesota corporation; Select Brands Industries, Inc., a Kansas corporation, doing business as Select Awards; Strategic Marketing, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, Appellants, v. KIESLING-HESS FINISHING COMPANY; Martin Stern, Jr., AIA Architect, doing business as Martin Stern, Jr., AIA Architect and Associates, a California corporation; Shaw Industries, Inc., a foreign corporation, doing business as Philadelphia Carpet Company; Gerringer Carpet Service, Inc., a Nevada corporation; Clark County, a political subdivision of the State of Nevada; Dynalectric Company of Nevada, a Nevada corporation, doing business as Dynalectric-Vegas Valley Company; Vegas Valley Electric, Inc., a Nevada corporation, doing business as Dynalectric-Vegas Valley Company; United Air Conditioning Corporation, a California corporation; W.J. Thompson, Inc.; Pyrotronics, a Division of Baker Industries, Inc.; Kidde, Inc.; Robert J. Munro, Inc.; Cohama; Riverdale; Bob Lench Company Incorporated; Edwards Company, Inc., a Connecticut corporation; Honeywell, a Delaware corporation; Master Protection Enterprises, a foreign entity, successor in interest to Clark County Fire Equipment, Inc., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

September 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Polsenberg, Galatz, Earl & Catalano, Las Vegas, for appellants.

Corby D. Arnold, P.C., Las Vegas, for respondent Martin Stern, Jr., AIA Architect.

Lyles and Austin, Las Vegas, for respondent Gerringer Carpet Service, Inc.

Philip R. Byrnes, Sitter, Mayer & Mancuso, Las Vegas, for respondent Kiesling-Hess Finishing Co.

Brown, Wells, Beller & Kravitz, Las Vegas, for respondent Shaw Industries, Inc. doing business as Philadelphia Carpet Co.

Dickerson, Miles, Pico & Mitchell, Las Vegas, for respondent Clark County.

Virgil R. Gentner, Chtd., Las Vegas, for respondent Dynalectric Co. of Nevada & Vegas Valley Elec., Inc.

Keefer, O'Reilly & Haight, Las Vegas, for respondent W.J. Thompson, Inc.

Erickson, Thorpe, Swainston & Cobb, Ltd., Reno, for respondent Kidde, Inc.

Bell & Young, Las Vegas, for respondent Cohoma and Riverdale.

Law Offices of Paul C. Parraguirre, Las Vegas, for respondent Edwards Co., Inc.

Goethals & Swanson, Las Vegas, for respondent Master Protection Enterprises successor in interest in Clark County Fire Equipment, Inc.

Jeffrey Ian Shaner, Las Vegas, for respondent United Air Conditioning Corp.

T. Gregory Apocotos, Las Vegas, for respondent Pyrotronics.

Law Office of Leland E. Lutfy, Las Vegas, for respondent Robert J. Munro, Inc.

John Peter Lee, Ltd., Las Vegas, for respondent Bob Lench Co., Inc.

Johnson, Pilkington & Reynolds, Las Vegas, for respondent Honeywell.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The Las Vegas Hilton Hotel Fire litigation is a series of consolidated cases filed as a result of a fire at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel on February 10, 1981. Appellants, foreign corporate plaintiffs who allegedly suffered damages as a result of the hotel fire, appeal a motion for partial summary judgment, which was granted against them and in favor of respondents. In granting the summary judgment motion, the district court determined that...

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