A 32-year-old worker who was seriously injured while working on a construction project when a dirt wall collapsed and buried him up to the middle of his chest was awarded $2.4 million in a settlement.   According to the plaintiff’s attorney, ...

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A group of homeowners in Cary has reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the general contractor that improperly installed the concrete siding in their homes, bringing a close to a legal wrangle that took more than eight years to resolve. ...

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A group of condo owners in western North Carolina will be able to sue the companies that built and developed their condos after the North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned a superior court ruling dismissing the suit on procedural grounds. ...

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Ignoring a trio of decisions from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina that strayed from the industry standard, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently found that North Carolina law does allow subcontractors and ...

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1  Wife’s loan guarantee wrongfully demanded, court rules The North Carolina Court of Appeals saved a developer’s wife millions when it held that a bank had wrongfully insisted on her guarantee for her husband’s loan, thus keeping the bank’s successor ...

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Cameron Hospitality, Inc. v. Cline Design Associates, PA In this case arising out of a construction project dispute, the fact that plaintiff’s claims against the architect and the general contractor were dismissed does not also require the dismissal of plaintiff’s claims against the engineer who was hired by the architect or a subcontractor who was hired by the general contractor.

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Southern Seeding Service, Inc. v. W.C. English, Inc. A construction subcontract’s “no damages for delay” clause does not prohibit the subcontractor from receiving compensation for increased prices under the “equitable adjustment” clause. We reverse judgment for defendants and remand.

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Pete Wall Plumbing Co. v. Sandra Anderson Builders, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-0275, 25 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) (Sanford L. Steelman Jr., J., concurring) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court. (Ronald E. Spivey, J.) N.C. App. Click here for ...

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With so many diverse and competing interests, it's been difficult to get a consensus on how to do something everyone agrees must be done: Change the state's lien laws. Nan E. Hannah (pictured), head of the N.C. Bar Association's Construction Law Section, said recent bankruptcy decisions, economic factors, concerns in the title industry and other issues led the section to "take a really hard look at the lien law" this year.

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Construction accidents frequently give rise to third-party tort claims. Given the number of entities involved on major construction projects, the chances of identifying a culpable party that is not protected by the exclusive remedy provisions of the workers' compensation act are rather good.

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