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...
by Kent Holland | Mar 1, 2019 | Newsletter Article
The City of New York filed a breach of contract claim against an architect (Perkins Eastman) that was under contract to the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY), claiming it was an intended third party beneficiary of that contract. The state Court of...
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