Category: Construction Defect

Kate Crouch Secures Dismissal with Prejudice of Suit Filed Against Contractor Client

Mar 15, 2018 Construction Defect
Kate Crouch secured the dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit filed against our client, a contractor who provided hot water systems to a residential co-op on Chicago’s south side. Plaintiff sought compensatory and punitive damages, alleging that the hot water systems provided, were designed in a faulty manner, failed to […]

Summary Judgment Obtained & Affirmed on Appeal in Fire Protection Case

Feb 20, 2015 Construction Defect
Bill Lindsay: Our client, a general contractor, was sued for wrongful death and survival following an industrial accident where the contractor had renovated a plastics factory, and allegedly failed to provide sufficient fire protection. The plaintiff’s decedent, a woman in her mid-forties with three children, burned to death when she dropped […]