My Tenant's Stove Range Cracked. Buy a new stove or repair it?

[Ralph Miller]

So the top of my tenant's stove cracked.  On the stone range, it seems a pot was dropped on the surface and a crack has spread to all four corners of the stove.  Who is at fault is still under review....

I'm calling appliance repair shops to get their opinions but I also wanted to ask BP.  Has anyone dealt with this before?  Did you just buy a whole new stove or try to repair the stove range?  How likely is it that the crack "just formed" or did someone have to drop a pot on top of the glass to shatter the stove range?

Any advice would be awesome!