LAS VEGAS (KLAS)– A national insurance company refuses to pay the insurance claim of an 82-year-old woman whose home in Las Vegas caught fire and burned to the ground in July 2023, destroying 70% of it and the majority of her possessions inside, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.
Liberty Mutual canceled the woman’s homeowners policy two weeks before the fire saying the woman, Judi Johnson – and her special-needs adult son – were running a motorcycle repair shop out of the three-bedroom home near Oakey and MLK boulevards, according to documents provided by the homeowner.
“No,” Johnson said when asked if she or her son were running a business from the home. “And I don’t see how it could have been very profitable. You know, we have no skills. We have no abilities. I don’t know, one bike from another.”
Regardless, Johnson and her son are living in temporary housing. She says before the house was boarded up, vagrants would break in, stay inside – and loot – the house.
“They would break the padlocks,” Johnson said, telling the 8 News Now Investigators that those intruders “ripped out all the plumbing.”