Wrongful death suit names mayor

Coeur d’Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer and Coeur d’Alene Resort general manager Bill Reagan are targets of a wrongful death lawsuit.

Recently filed court documents state Widmyer and Reagan, co-owners of the Royal Arms Apartments, were negligent and proximately caused the November 2014 death of 73-year-old tenant Margie Saunders. Saunders died of hypothermia due to the apartment complex’s heating deficiencies, according to her son and the case’s lone plaintiff, Stephen Saunders.

R. Marie Widmyer, Ben Widmyer, Danelle Reagan, BW Real Estate LLC, C.E Oakland Plumbing and Heating and subjects listed as John Does 1-5 and Corporate Does 6-10 are also among the lawsuit’s defendants.

Stephen Saunders claims the defendants received numerous complaints from tenants about a lack of heat and hot water over a seven-month period leading up to his mother’s death/ Ryan Collingwood , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .