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What Happened: Flooding caused by the bursting of a frozen sprinkler pipe forced a Boston specialty supermarket tenant to temporarily evacuate. After three months of waiting for the landlord to make the needed structural repairs, the tenant lost patience and sued for damages. The jury found that the landlord had violated its lease duty to make structural repairs and awarded the tenant $800,000 in damages, including lost profits for the time it was forced to shut down.
