by Kent Holland | Feb 20, 2018 | Newsletter Article
Contractor for a wastewater treatment plant sued the municipal owner and its project engineer for breach of contract for interfering with its work by failing to obtain easements in time for the contractor’s construction work to proceed. Although the contract was, on...
by Kent Holland | Mar 23, 2015 | Newsletter Article
Where the second purchasers of a home sued the builder asserting a breach of implied warranty of habitability, a 2012 Pennsylvania Superior Court decision held that despite the lack of privity of contract between the parties, public policy dictated that the subsequent...
by Kent Holland | Feb 23, 2015 | Newsletter Article
By: Gail S. Kelley, P.E., Esq., ConstructionRisk Counsel, PLLC Where a condominium homeowners’ association brought claims for breach of implied warranty and negligence against the general contractor that built the condominiums, but not the developer who engaged the...
by Kent Holland | Nov 18, 2014 | Newsletter Article
James Rhodes, Esq. ConstructionRisk Counsel, PLLC A federal district court, applying Nebraska law, dismissed several causes of action by a prime contractor against its second-tier subcontractors due to the lack of a contractual relationship between them (in legal...
by Kent Holland | Oct 25, 2013 | Newsletter Article
A construction contractor under contract to a city housing authority was not barred by the economic loss doctrine from pursuing a negligence claim against the architect that designed the project under separate contract with the owner. This is because under New Jersey...
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