The firm represented one of the largest bridge builders in the country in a dispute with a surveying company over the layout of bridge abutments. The firm’s client alleged the surveyor made an error in its calculations resulting in improper layout and construction of two abutments in reliance on the survey data and staking.
Ensuing redesign resulted in additional costs, delay, and extra work.
The survey error required a redesign and enlargement of the two bridge abutments at an increased cost for the delay and extra work. The firm prosecuted the claims in arbitration to a successful recovery of all of the increased costs its client incurred, plus profit on the extra work, and attorneys’ fees, for a total recovery of $1.85 million.
Counsel: P. Randolph Finch Jr. and Lindsey C. Herzik