Source: Oregonian (Portland, OR), March 6, 2015 By: Tony Hernandez Multnomah County taxpayers will recoup the money spent on the Morrison Bridge decking that fell apart shortly after it was installed, a jury decided Friday. Jurors, after an 11-day trial, awarded the county $4.4 million in its lawsuit against the contractor and subcontractors. At the […]

Source: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com, February 9, 2008 The Princeton School District brought a lawsuit against Architects Rego and Youngquist (ARY) and prime general contractor Breitbach Construction, alleging that there were construction defects in a school building. Records show that the school district first brought arbitration claims against ARY and Breitbach in 2006, citing design and construction errors […]

Source: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com, February 16, 2008 Marion County brought charges against insurers of nine construction companies over delays and concrete problems that disrupted the downtown Central Library’s expansion. The companies named in the lawsuit were Ambassador Steel; Premier Concrete; Quantum Steel; Shiel-Sexton Co.; Shook, LLC; Trotter Construction Co.; Turner Construction Co.; and Turner Trotter Shiel Sexton […]

Source: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com, November 22, 2007 The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly brought charges against McGraw’s Custom Construction, a construction company, over a faulty job at the local elementary school. The suit stated that the company had rendered substandard services, including defective construction and mold remediation at Schoenbar Middle School. As part of a settlement agreement reached, […]

Source: http://www.floridaconstructionlawyerblog.com, May 10, 2010 By: Siegfried, Rivera, Hyman, Lerner, De La Torre, Mars & Sobel, P.A. Lawsuits against construction contractors appear to be more prevalent as a result of the economic recession, and the construction law attorneys who work with contractors at our firm and throughout the country have been working very closely with […]

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: 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.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: 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 […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, June 23, 2014 By: Judy Greenwald Two design flaws in construction of a City University of New York building entitle the building’s owner, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, to two separate limits of liability, says an appeals court, in upholding a lower court ruling that the two claims were […]