Printer, Insurer Tangle in Court Over Fire

"Can you be unbiased if you have money at stake?" Holland was asked by Genesis lawyer Dick Harpootlian, the paper reported. Harpootlian added that the investigator made it his objective to support a denial of the claim rather than discover the truth.

Harpootlian suggested that a disgruntled former employee who had been fired set the blazes. Hartford's attorney countered that the Genesis owners, millions of dollars in debt that was personally guaranteed, were on the verge of bankruptcy. The company had relocated from Miami to Greenville in 2007.