Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com, September 29, 2017 By: Mary Shanklin The University of Central Florida’s football stadium has some problems, according to a construction-defect lawsuit the school filed against architects and contractors. Nicknamed the Bounce House when it opened a decade ago because it shifted slightly as fans jumped in unison, the venue’s metal framing for seating […]

Source: http://www.star-telegram.com, September 29, 2017 By: Sandra Engelland It was a few years ago when maintenance workers and staff at Trinity Meadows Intermediate School began to notice problems. Cracks in the walls. Doors that would stick. Heaving sidewalks and widening gaps and cracks in visible parts of the concrete slab. Now, 11 years after the […]

Source: http://www.portlandmercury.com, September28 , 2017 By: Dirk Vanderhart Last year, Portland piled on to a group of West Coast cities who say a precursor of agribusiness giant Monsanto tainted their waterways. Monsanto promptly argued the city has no right to file suit. Monsanto was wrong. Late last week, a federal judge ruled that Portland has […]

Source: http://www.constructiondive.com, September 6, 2017 By: Mary Tyler March Dive Brief: Months after a spillway failure forced the temporary evacuation of 188,000 Sacramento, CA, area residents, independent safety experts say poor design and construction, as well as inadequate inspections, caused February’s collapse at the Oroville Dam, The Mercury News reported. Thin concrete, insufficient foundations and ill-placed […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, September 18, 2017 By: Jeffrey S. Crowe and Jennifer Hoffman, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Energy Insurance Mutual Limited v. Ace American Insurance Company, 14 Cal.App.5th 281 (2017); First Appellate District Court of Appeal, Division Four, Case No. A140656 (July 11, 2017). In Energy Insurance Mutual Limited v. Ace American Insurance Company, […]

Source: http://www.rutlandherald.com, September 27, 2017 By: Gordon Dritschilo A judge told a city developer Monday he was on the hook for $1.8 million for the cleanup of a former dry cleaning business. John Ruggiero walked out of Rutland civil court owing the state Agency of Natural Resources triple damages in the $535,679 cleanup of the […]

Source: https://www.constructionrisk.com, September 2017 By: J. Kent Holland, Jr. Where a housing developer won a jury verdict for more than $9.5 million against a geotechnical engineer, the court applied the limitation of liability (LoL) clause in the geotech’s contract to cap the liability at $550,000. The developer attempted to avoid the LoL by arguing that […]

Source: https://www.constructionrisk.com, September 2017 By: J. Kent Holland, Jr. On a design-build project where an architect held the prime contract under DBIA forms 530 and 535, it was liable for overall site safety – including that which it had by subcontract expressly delegated to its construction subcontractor.   Because the language of the prime agreement imposed […]

Source: http://www.constructiondive.com, September 25, 2017 By: Kim Slowey The San Francisco Bay Area’s Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) has spent $3.5 million in legal fees since December to defend against claims that construction of its Transbay Transit Center contributed to the sinking and leaning of the 58-story Millennium Tower, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, August 23, 2017 By: Judy Greenwald A federal appeals court has upheld Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance Co. Inc.’s denial of an insurance claim for a claims-made policy by a construction firm because the claim was not submitted within the policy period, even though it was submitted during the policy’s subsequent renewal period. […]

Source: http://www.times-standard.com, September 22, 2017 By: Hunter Cresswell It’s been a decades-long process but hazardous material mitigation work at the site of an old dry cleaners in Eureka’s Henderson Center is set to wrap up this fall. The work was necessitated by faulty hoses that started leaking hazardous cleaning chemicals into the soil beneath Norman’s […]

Source: http://www.foxnews.com, September 21, 2017 A Queens resident is dead and another was sickened after they both contracted Legionnaires’ disease within a two-month period, prompting New York City health officials to investigate their apartment building’s plumbing. The other residents of Park Towers, located on Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills, have been notified of the ongoing […]