County Seeks Dismissal From Carbon Monoxide Suit

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Attorneys representing Pitkin County commissioners are seeking to dismiss the county from a lawsuit over the carbon monoxide poisoning deaths of a Denver family in 2008.

A motion filed this month argues the commissioners, the county Community Development Department, county inspector Brian Pawl and former county employee Erik Peltonen shouldn't be held liable for the deaths of Caroline and Parker Lofgren and their two children.

Investigators say a disconnected exhaust pipe leaked carbon monoxide into a house where the family had won a getaway. Relatives allege negligence by the defendants and others led to the deaths.

The county argues that county officials and employees didn't install the pipe or host the family.

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