Source: http://courtnewsohio.gov, January 20, 2015 By: Dan Trevas Architectural firm NBBJ L.L.C. may be financially responsible for Miami Valley Hospital’s litigation costs arising from the 2011 deadly Legionnaire’s disease outbreak, an appeals court ruled. The Second District Court of Appeals last week upheld a summary judgment granted to Miami Valley Hospital (MVH) and its corporate […]

Source: http://www.claimsjournal.com, January 8, 2015 By: Steven Plitt Recently, the South Carolina Court of Appeals in Precision Walls, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 410 S.C. 175, 763 S.E.2d 598 (Ct. App. 2014), reh’g denied (Oct. 23, 2014), held that the cost to tear down and re-build a brick veneer to replace defective tape […]

Source: http://www.reviewjournal.com, December 17, 2014 By: Howard Stutz Tutor Perini Corp., the general contractor behind CityCenter and a party in a massive construction defect case involving the development’s Harmon Hotel, said Wednesday it would receive “total net settlement proceeds” of approximately $189.5 million on its lien claims. None of the lawsuit parties have commented on […]

Source: http://www.reviewjournal.com, December 16, 2014 By: Carri Geer Thevenot A global settlement was announced Tuesday in the massive construction defect case involving CityCenter’s Harmon Hotel. The announcement came the day lawyers were to present opening statements at the trial, which was expected to last more than a year. District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, who has been […]

Source: Nautilus Consulting, LLC As was reported in the November 14, 2012 issue of DelmarvaNow.com (http://tinyurl.com/b4bmuon) a jury has ruled that the construction manager hired to oversee and manage the construction of the bungled sewage treatment plant upgrades in Salisbury, MD must return $2.1 million of what it had already been paid for the work. The […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, November 15, 2014 By: Carl A. Salisbury, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP A well drilling company has an insurance policy that covers property damage to any well, hole, or formation, or to any drilling or well servicing machinery or equipment, arising out of operations performed by the drilling company.  The policy contains an […]

Source: http://www.couriernews.com, August 13, 2011 By: Lindsey Williams Filing claims architecture firm caused delay in construction at RHS The construction of Russellville High School’s Center for the Performing Arts has sparked a lawsuit, court documents show. EWI Inc., the construction manager for the performing arts center project, filed a civil suit Aug. 5 in Pope […]

Source: http://www.timescolonist.com, August 20, 2014 By: Carla Wilson The design-build contractors for the Royal Jubilee Hospital’s Patient Care Centre are due $8.5 million from insurance companies to cover the expense of concrete-slab repairs during construction, states a B.C. Supreme Court judgment. The contractors took their insurance companies to court, seeking to recoup $14.9 million spent […]

Source: http://www.lasvegassun.com, March 22, 2001 More than $1 million might be needed to cure construction defects at the Lied Library at UNLV, and the state is preparing to do legal battle with the contractors and subcontractors who claim they are still owed $6.5 million for extra work. The state Board of Examiners received an update […]

Source: http://www.sfgate.com, August 4, 2014 By: Jaxon Van Derbeken Top Caltrans officials are expected to respond Tuesday to accusations that they “gagged and banished” engineers who identified construction problems on the new Bay Bridge eastern span and that the agency failed to maintain basic quality control on the project. In advance of a state Senate hearing, […]

The attached documents detail a recent Massachusetts decision that could impact general contractors and their expectations on building projects.  In the case of Coghlin Electrical Contractors, Inc. v. Gilbane Building Company & Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. of America, No. 2013-1300-D (Mass. Sup. Ct., June 24, 2014) (Davis, J.) a court “dismissed a Construction Manager’s […]

Source: Daily News of Newburyport (MA), July 16, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com It appears that the $292 million Whittier Bridge/I-95 Improvement Project has hit a snag after a faulty concrete pour. Concrete was incorrectly poured in a support pier that rises out of the Merrimack River. Work has been ongoing to remove the problem and […]