ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The City of Rockford will not have to pay $29.5 million in damages sought by Mercyhealth for flooding damage to its Rockton Avenue campus in 2018.
Two lawsuits, brought by Javon Bea Hospital and Federal Insurance Co, alleged that the City was negligent in maintenance of the storm drain and sewer system near the hospital. The suit said that on June 18th, 2018, waters backed up and ran toward the hospital, located at 2400 N Rockton Avenue, resulting in a glass window shattering and allowing water to flood into the hospital, resulting in “significant and catastrophic damage.”
The suits alleged that the city failed to install adequate drainage for the hospital in 1962…