The Recreation
Centers of Sun City, Inc., has learned that the company’s insurance
provider, The Cincinnati Insurance Companies, has denied RCSC’s claim in
the collapse of the roof over the indoor pool at Sundial Recreation
Center. An engineering firm hired by Cincinnati Insurance determined
that “material defects in the composition of the support gluelam beam
that spanned across the south end of the pool” caused the beam to fail
and collapse the roof. Losses due to material defects in property are
excluded from RCSC’s insurance policy.
The beam that failed was from the
original construction of Sundial in 1972 and was reused in the 1987
renovation of the pool facility.
RCSC Board President Denny Nichols
expressed his disappointment at the denial of the claim. “RCSC is now
looking into what our options are,” he said. “While we are disappointed
that our claim was denied, our members can rest assured that we will be
going forward with the Sundial rebuilding.”
Contact: Lindsay Frost, RCSC Communications Coordinator
(623) 876-3060, ext. 3087;