Source: http://austin.ynn.com, June 29, 2011 By: John A. Salazar The falling glass at the W Hotel in Downtown Austin is now turning into a legal battle. Austin attorney Randy Howry filed a lawsuit against the hotel, alleging negligence on behalf of his two clients who were struck by falling glass from the hotel’s balconies earlier […]

Source: http://www.allbusiness.com, September 7, 2007 By: Matthew Higbee, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport The town has sued the architectural firm that designed the middle school over a recurring moisture problem that is cracking the ground floor in several classrooms and causing mold to appear. The lawsuit, filed against Fletcher Thompson Architects in Milford Superior Court on Wednesday, […]

Source: http://www.constructionweblinks.com, April 9, 2007 By: Clark T. Thiel, Howrey LLP Although it believed the proposed settlement to be detrimental to its own pecuniary interests, an at-risk construction manager’s fiduciary responsibilities to the project owner precluded it from objecting to the terms of the settlement between the owner and design-build contractor. As an agent of […]

Source: http://www.seattlepi.com, May 11, 2007 By: Andrea James The state Department of Labor & Industries on Friday fined two companies a total of $14,800 for alleged violations that resulted in a deadly tower crane collapse in Bellevue. A six-month investigation into the accident confirms preliminary reports that the crane’s poorly designed foundation, which was made […]

Source: The Boston Globe, August 1, 2006 The Big Dig has at least $800 million in insurance coverage that would pay for much of the repair bills, inspection costs, and lawsuits stemming from the deadly Interstate 90 connector tunnel ceiling collapse, according to a memo that circulated yesterday among state lawmakers. The memo, from the […]

Read here about a Tennessee Valley Authority Contractor that agreed to pay over $6 million to the federal government to settle a fraud investigation.

Source: http://www.ktvb.com, May 26, 2011 The Washington State Supreme Court upheld a ruling against an engineering firm that it was negligent in the horrific death of a man who fell into a vat of hot sewer sludge in an accident at the Spokane wastewater treatment plant in 2004. On May 10, 2004 a digester dome […]

Source: http://www.floridacdc.org, April 29, 2003 By: Andres Viglucci If paid for by the county, the $25 million in potential cost overruns would consume all of the contingency funds set aside for the arts center project. The county says the builders should absorb the cost. When Miami-Dade County Manager Steve Shiver recently described construction of the […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, August 30, 2004> Owner, contractors and architect settle claims and set new schedule for much-troubled project The owner, architect and builder of the $419-million Miami Performing Arts Center have reached a $44-million settlement that is expected to put the high- profile project on positive footing after years of delays and big cost overruns. […]

Source: http://articles.boston.com, May 2, 2011 By: Beth Daley The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is preparing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against several companies for the catastrophic water main break last year that cut off clean water to nearly 2 million Boston-area residents for more than two days. The region’s water supplier says a panel has nearly completed […]

Source: http://www.knoxnews.com, May 1, 2011 By: Natalie Neysa Alund From debris cleanup and odor elimination to water sampling and machinery replacement, daily reports reflect what’s been happening at the Gatlinburg Wastewater Treatment Plant since a basin wall collapsed last month and killed two workers. Although reconstruction is under way at the Banner Road facility where the […]

Source: http://www.lohud.com, May 1, 2011 By: Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and Jonathan Bandler Multimillion-dollar mistakes, design flaws and obstacles for which state engineers failed to account drove the cost of the Interstate 287 reconstruction up more than $67 million and delayed completion of the decade-long project by two years, a Journal News investigation reveals. Taxpayers have spent […]