NEW YORK (AP) -- A celebrity dentist is suing Con Edison for damaging his practice by not letting him back into his midtown Manhattan offices after the steam pipe explosion.
Dr. Bruce Haber, a cosmetic dentist who says he treats corporate CEOs, famous sports figures, actors and supermodels, today filed a $25 million lawsuit in Manhattan against the utility, claiming he's lost money and patients.
Haber says he hasn't been able to get into the 42nd Street building where he has his 25th-floor office, across the street from Grand Central Terminal, since the July 18 explosion. Haber said he was turned away again this morning.
Haber's lawyer, Alan Schnurman, says the lawsuit also accuses Con Ed of negligence because workers inspected the pipe at the point of the explosion just seven hours earlier and declared it safe.
Francine Dorf, whose sister died in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center filed a negligence suit in Brooklyn on Monday against Con Ed, saying the utility failed to maintain the ruptured steam pipe properly.
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