by Kent Holland | Jun 3, 2026 | Current Issue:, Newsletter Article
A City filed a lawsuit against the prime design firm (BKI”) that created the hydraulic model for a sewer System. The suit alleged the contractor breached its contract and committed gross negligence because the hydraulic model was defective. The city also sued an...
by Kent Holland | Nov 5, 2020 | Newsletter Article
Brasfield & Gorrie LLC (Brasfield) was a general contractor (GC) hired by Fritz Farm Retail Company, LLC to construct The Summit at Fritz Farm, a multi-use development. Brasfield entered into a subcontract with Harrod Concrete and Stone Co. (Harrod), for Harrod...
by Kent Holland | Feb 25, 2020 | Newsletter Article
A homeowner’s house developed large cracks in its foundation and walls due to settling, lateral movement of the foundation, and an unstable slope of the building lot. It filed suit against a geotechnical engineering firm that had ten years earlier prepared a site...
by Kent Holland | Feb 25, 2020 | Newsletter Article
An engineer under contract to a federal agency (USAID) provided preliminary designs (the bridging documents) for a design-build project that the owner then provided to the contractor to complete the final designs for the project and then construct it. The contractor...
by Kent Holland | Jun 19, 2019 | Newsletter Article
An engineer that prepared a Request for Proposals (RFP) owed no duty to a bidder on a sewer authority project as a third-party who could foreseeably be injured or suffer economic loss due to engineer’s negligent performance of a contractual duty owed by the engineer...
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