Staff report

Seeking approximately $1 million in back payments, two businesses filed civil lawsuits against Insight Health System this month in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Limbach Co. LLC, an HVAC contractor from Warrendale, Pa., claims it is owed almost $715,000 for work performed at Insight Trumbull, Insight Hillside and Insight Health Center Austintown.

Filing its complaint Aug. 1, Limbach Co. also is seeking interest and enforcement of its mechanic liens. The company alleges Insight committed a breach of contract in its failure to pay the balances of 24 projects dating to 2024.

Dayton-based Advanced Staffing Services LLC is pursuing a breach of contract claim in its suit filed Thursday. It said it is owed almost $305,000 and requested approximately $26,000 in interest.

An Insight spokesman said Monday the hospital system did not have a comment on the cases.

Limbach Co. completed several high dollar projects at Insight’s Trumbull County properties. According to court documents, work at Insight Trumbull included $334,819.24 for boiler repair; $51,000 for valve work; and $49,800 related to fan motors.

Three of Limbach’s contracts involving Insight Hillside were in excess of $20,000 each: $35,838, Compressor replacement; $29,479.82, cooling tower repair; and $21,852, freezer condenser and evaporator work.

Listed in court paperwork are the projects and balances Limbach said they are owed.

Insight Hillside

• Jan. 17, 2024 — Replace 40-ton compressor, $35,838 (Note: Paperwork turned into the court shows a proposed date of Jan. 17, 2024. However, an Insight representative signed the agreement on Feb. 28, 2025.); Dec. 9, 2024 — Steam condensate return issue, $3,577.58; Dec. 17, 2024 — Replace heating coil, $6,280;

• Jan. 17 — Cooling tower repair and piping, $29,479.82; Jan. 20 — Freezer condenser and evaporator, $21,852; Feb. 11 — Assess and repair steam leak, $447;

• Feb. 12 — Rebuild and replace steam traps and actuator, $8,200; March 17 — Search for leak, $4,500; and April 8 — Fix boiler noise, $485.64.

Insight Trumbull

• Oct. 23, 2024 — Repair MR-10 steam station, $19,600; Nov. 11, 2024 — Replace cath lab pump, $13,500; Nov. 14, 2024 — Rebuild HX PRVs, $10,250; Dec. 5, 2024 — Work related to fan motors and VDFs, $49,800; Dec. 16, 2024 — Sterilizer hookup, $6,269.12;

• Dec. 23, 2024 — Steam station repair, 10th floor, $714; Dec. 11, 2024 — Installation and rental of boiler pump, $334,819.24; Dec. 29, 2024 — Rebuild OR PRVs and valves, 10th floor, $51,000; Jan. 9 — SPD washer hookup, $5,900; Jan. 14 — Rebuild south basement heating pumps, $13,240.98;

• Jan. 22 — Repair boiler, $21,309.52; Jan. 28 — Steam leak, $5,100; Jan. 28 — Repair 6-inch domestic main, $16,900; Feb. 13 — Repair reheat buffer tanks, $24,574.43;

• March 14 — Induction piping repair, 10th floor, $3,315.44.

Insight Health Center Austintown

• Jan. 28 — Chiller repair, $665.96; and March 7, Assess HVAC equipment, $5,694.44.

In its lawsuit, Advanced Staffing said that beginning April 21, 2021, it recruited and referred health care clinicians to the former Trumbull Regional Medical Center. The facility was operated by the now-bankrupt Steward Health Care. Insight agreed to take over payments from Steward on Sept. 11, 2024, Advanced Staffing’s attorneys claim.

The company said that from Oct. 26, 2024, through Feb. 6, Insight has not paid for the services owed.

Judge Sarah Thomas Kovoor is presiding in the Limbach case, while Judge Ronald J. Rice will hear the Advanced Staffing lawsuit.