by Kent Holland | Dec 28, 2012 | Newsletter Article
Approximately four or five years after completion of the Hilton Hotel at the Boston Logan Airport, an employee of the airport authority was electrocuted while attempting to repair an electrical transformer that lacked required wiring diagrams and warning signs. The...
by Kent Holland | Oct 4, 2012 | Newsletter Article
In Wisconsin, where the economic loss doctrine does not bar malpractice suits against professional service providers such as architects and engineers, a court concluded that a contractor who designed and constructed a resort and conference center that included an...
by Kent Holland | Dec 30, 2011 | Newsletter Article, third party claims
In a case decided last year by the Court of Appeals of Texas (Black + Vernooy Architects v. Smith), it was held that an Architect could be liable to a young woman who fell 20 feet and sustained permanent injuries when she fell from a balcony due to defective...
by Kent Holland | Dec 12, 2011 | Newsletter Article
A restaurant owner that contracted with a general contractor to remodel a restaurant was permitted by the Supreme Court of Idaho to file a negligence-based law suit directly against an electrical subcontractor that it alleged was responsible for defective installation...
by Kent Holland | Jul 25, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Design Professional’s alleged errors were not the proximate cause of the death of a construction worker, and summary judgment was correctly granted because intervening negligent acts of the general contractor broke any causal connection between the alleged negligence...
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