Dillingham Construction, N.A. v. Nadel Partnership, Inc.

Opinion

BARON, J.

Appellant the Nadel Partnership, Inc. (Nadel), an architecture firm, was found by a jury to be 10 percent liable for a discrete set of defects in a construction project which would cost $3,437,494 to repair. The cost of overall repairs to the project was estimated at up to $51 million by the plaintiff, who settled for a total of approximately $15 million paid by other defendants. On a cross-claim for indemnity brought by one of the settling defendants, the trial court allowed the jury to decide how much of the unallocated lump-sum settlement should be attributed to the defects…