Munroe Apartments Quincy Claim
| Project Name: | Munroe Apartments Quincy |
| Location: | Quincy, MA |
| Project Value: | $22,559,976 |
| Project Owner: | Abbott Real Estate Dev. |
JGCMI Claim Involvement:
- Dispute resolution through negotiated settlements of four subcontractor payment bond claims totaling $630K
- Analyze the dispute by separating it into – issue by issue, fact by fact, and event by event in order to assess the responsibility, causation and damage components of the dispute
- Assist in the preparation of affidavits, initial disclosures, motions for summary judgment and interrogatories
- Complete account reconciliation, prepare settlement options and participate in settlement discussions
- Prepare for and participated in two dispute resolution mediations on a $2.7 million owner delay/contract balance/disputed change order claim and a $6.5 Million subcontractor defective work claim involving surety
- Collaborate with legal counsel/surety on developing mediation strategy, assist in the decision making process, and help determine the best plan for mediating the dispute
- Gather and help reproduce all of the pertinent documents and organize it into a meaningful data base of core information
- Assist in the preparation of amended complaints, counter-claims, mediation statement, and answering interrogatories
- Organize file for production of documents
- Complete account reconciliation, prepare settlement options and participate in mediation presentation/discussions
- Preside over organizing and overseeing the collaborative effort of submitting a $2.6 million insurance claim.
- Assisted legal counsel/surety with investigating and evaluating the performance of the designer, contractor and subcontractors regarding compliance with contract provisions and standards of practice in the construction industry
- Analyzed the cause and origin of construction defects
- Assembled the costs for correcting and repairing work associated with construction defects and submitted claim to the general liability insurance carrier
- Prepared for meeting and presented claim to insurance carrier
- Assisted legal counsel/surety during settlement discussions with insurance carrier
- Hired as surety’s construction consultant/manager to oversee the corrective work associated with construction defects/failures in an occupied building
- Managed $800K of subcontractor scope associated with correcting defective work and repairing damaged work
- Assist legal counsel with hiring and managing the involvement of a building envelope expert that included the scheduling of site observations and water tests
