by Kent Holland | Jun 7, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Where Contractor’s insurance carrier brought a subrogation action against the project’s design professional for negligent performance, including failure to prepare contract drawings and specifications in a manner “fully coordinated for bidding by the various...
by Kent Holland | Jun 7, 2011 | Newsletter Article
For more than a decade, design professionals in Washington have been able to rely upon the economic loss doctrine as a bulwark against many third party claims and certain types of negligence claims from their clients. However, two recent Washington State Supreme...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
By: Andrew B. Cohn, Esq. A very recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion (January 2005) has significantly changed Pennsylvania law, allowing a general contractor to directly sue an architect in negligence for additional construction costs caused by defective plans,...
by Kent Holland | Feb 8, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Where the project architect sued the construction manager (CM), asserting that that the CM negligently performance its services and thereby impacted the architect’s services, costs, fees, and profits, the court held that the contract between the CM and owner did not...
by Kent Holland | Feb 8, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Where the project architect knew there was no payment bond and that subcontractor was not being paid, yet continued to certify payments to the general contractor and reduced the amount of retainage, it could be liable for breach of duty to use reasonable care to...
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