by Kent Holland | Aug 11, 2020 | Newsletter Article
Design-Builder’s services were terminated by the project owner. It then sued the owner for breach of contract. The owner counter-claimed — alleging breach of contract, breach of “implied duties of workmanlike performance and fitness for a particular purpose,”...
by Kent Holland | Mar 20, 2020 | Newsletter Article
An Engineering firm (“GOAD”) had a client (Honeywell) that it was working with to submit a bid to a federal agency. GOAD decided it needed some technical assistance itself and found ITI, Inc. to provide certain engineering services as its subcontractor. At some point,...
by Kent Holland | Feb 20, 2018 | Newsletter Article
Where a subcontractor failed to conduct soil-compaction testing before construction, the house that was built on non-compacted soil sustained settlement damage. The homeowners sued both the general contractor (GC) and subcontractor for damages. The GC tendered the...
by Kent Holland | Aug 28, 2017 | Newsletter Article
By: Kent Holland Where lead-based paint was ingested by a tenant’s child, the tenant sued her landlord for injuries allegedly sustained by the child. The landlord tendered the claim to its commercial general liability (CGL) insurer who, instead of defending the...
by Kent Holland | Jun 1, 2017 | Newsletter Article, professional liability exclusion
Sparks from a cutting torch being used to remove bolts from a wastewater digester tank ignited a methane gas explosion that killed an employee of a construction subcontractor and injured an employee of another subcontractor. Both subcontractor’s were required by their...
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