Continental Insurance v. Walsh Construction Co.

Plaintiff Continental Insurance Company filed suit for damages caused to its building allegedly resulting from negligent services provided by defendants in the engineering and construction of an underground sewer system for the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago (the District) adjacent to plaintiff’s property. The trial court found that plaintiff’s complaint, filed almost five years after the damage to its property occurred, was barred by a two-year statute of limitations for actions “against any person for an act or omission of such person in the design, planning, supervision,…