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Court Says Insurance Doesn’t Have to Cover Damages Caused by Exploding Corpse

A woman whose apartment was badly damaged after her upstairs neighbors decomposing corpse exploded has to pay up for the damages.

By staff Writer | Updated on May 07, 2014

A woman whose apartment was badly damaged after her upstairs neighbor’s decomposing corpse exploded has to pay up for the damages, says the New York Daily News. Judy Rodrigo’s nearly six-year battle for full insurance coverage to repair her putrid apartment ended this week after a Palm Beach County court ruled that the type of bodily explosion that destroyed her walls wasn’t the kind her policy covered.

According to the Daily News, in 2008, Rodrigo’s elderly upstairs neighbor passed away in her apartment, and it was two weeks before the body was found by maintenance workers responding to neighbors’ complaints of a bad smell. By that time the elderly woman’s decomposing corpse had burst from natural gasses building up inside, and what was left of her was reportedly being chewed on by her dog. The bodily fluids that erupted from the body leaked into Rodrigo’s home downstairs, causing the apartment to be gutted because of the lingering stench.

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