Legal Opinion
Alcal Roofing & Insulation v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 14, 1992No. A057004PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MERRILL, J.
In this opinion, we consider some of the problems involved in settling multiparty construction cases and in obtaining court approval of these settlements. Alcal Roofing and Insulation (roofer hereafter), the sole nonsettling defendant in an action brought over construction defects in a condominium development, challenges superior court approval of a $4.4 million settlement by Sears Savings Bank (developer hereafter). Roofer does not object to the amount of the settlement, but to the settling parties’ allocation of only $100,000 of the settlement to roofing issues. If the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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