{"id":45500,"date":"2025-09-05T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/45500\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:19:10","slug":"apartment-owners-in-creeslough-tragedy-go-to-high-court-over-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/45500\/","title":{"rendered":"Apartment owners in Creeslough tragedy go to High Court over payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An insurance firm is to seek High Court direction in settling a dispute over insurance claims relating to the Creeslough tragedy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The explosion claimed the lives of ten people and the service station and adjoining apartments left severely damaged following the tragedy on October 7th, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, Vivo Shell Ltd, a company controlled by Danny Martin Lafferty and Annette Lafferty and the owner of the complex overall, claimed losses arising from the explosion with its insurer, Aviva Insurance Ireland Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <strong>Irish Times<\/strong>, the building had been insured by Vivo Shell for \u20ac1.7 million, less than the property damage losses incurred as a result of the explosion, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p>A dispute arose after owners of individual apartments within the complex said they were entitled to a share of the payout of the claim regarding the building.<\/p>\n<p>Vivo Shell appears to agree that the apartment owners are entitled to a share of this payout, but there is disagreement on how it should be divided, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p>For full story see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/09\/05\/creeslough-explosion-dispute-over-payout-for-apartment-owners-goes-to-high-court\/#:~:text=Explosion%20at%20filling%20station%20in%202022%20left%2010%20dead%20and%20buildings%20badly%20damaged&amp;text=An%20insurance%20firm%20is%20to,Co%20Donegal%2C%20three%20years%20ago.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/09\/05\/creeslough-explosion-dispute-over-payout-for-apartment-owners-goes-to-high-court\/#:~:text=Explosion%20at%20filling%20station%20in%202022%20left%2010%20dead%20and%20buildings%20badly%20damaged&amp;text=An%20insurance%20firm%20is%20to,Co%20Donegal%2C%20three%20years%20ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apartment owners in Creeslough tragedy go to High Court over payouts was last modified:  September 5th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An insurance firm is to seek High Court direction in settling a dispute over insurance claims relating to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,34137,6368,18,13,14,6,10476,19,3912,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-45500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-creeslough-tragedy","11":"tag-donegal","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-high-court","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-insurance","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}