Law and order

Runaway film

Foto-Kem Industries, Inc. v. Wins Income Group LLC, Case No. EC 050226

When a company spends many hours working on a commissioned project, it expects to get paid.

But that wasn’t the outcome for Foto-Kem Industries, Inc.

The company, which processes film, signed an agreement with Wins Income Group LLC to prepare footage for a film entitled “C ME Dance.”

The film is about a teenage girl who has big-city aspirations to become a dancer with the Pittsburgh ballet.

Once the company finished processing the film, it sent Wins Income Group the footage and a bill for $52,267.

But Wins Income Group didn’t like that price, so it refused to pay, according to a lawsuit filed in Burbank Superior Court.

The film-processing company claims Wins Income Group agreed to the price, so now it is suing.  

The money pit

Carolina Gonzalez v. Minassian Trust, Victor Minassian, Malen Minnassian, Glenwest Management Company, Case No. EC 050233

Carolina Gonzalez lived at an apartment building on the 1200 block of North Glenoaks Boulevard for four years. Despite the apartment’s many faults, she considered it home.

But the Glenwest Management Company no longer wanted her to call it home, so they terminated her tenancy, according to a lawsuit filed in Glendale Superior Court.

That didn’t settle well with Gonzalez, so she decided to sue the property management company and the apartment building’s owners for all of its ill conditions.

She claims the property was poorly maintained and had a slew of challenges, including faulty wiring and plumbing, deteriorating walls and ceilings, gas leaks, overflowing sewage and contaminated water.

Rodents and roaches reportedly overran her apartment.

Gonzalez made oral and written complaints about the apartment’s conditions while she lived there.

As a result of the apartment’s dreadful environment, Gonzalez claims that she suffered from ear, throat and respiratory infections, colds, headaches, rashes and memory loss.

She is suing for more than $25,000 in damages and rent.

Trip hazard

Shalom Abergel and Perla Abergel v. Peter Coeler and Barbara Coeler, Case No. EC 050182

Perla Abergel was in her apartment building’s laundry room on Oct. 25 and was washing clothes when she tripped.

She suffered several serious injuries, which were not disclosed in a lawsuit that she filed in Burbank Superior Court.

Abergel and her husband, Shalom Abergel, claim they repeatedly warned Peter Coeler and his wife, Barbara, who own the building, of “trip hazards” in the laundry room.

The couple claim nothing was done to repair the hazards and the Coelers failed to maintain the property.

Perla Abergel is suing the Coelers for more than $25,000 in damages.