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Surety Fraud Probe Raises Question: Who is Melde Rutledge? 17 Aug 2013 | 03:32 am
Contractors John Melching Jr. and Dallas Collins are based in Pennsylvania and Texas, respectively, and have never met, but they have something in common: They claim they have been cheated in the past...
Restitution hearing held in fraud case 19 Jul 2013 | 11:49 pm
“A restitution hearing for a 2010 fraud case was held Thursday afternoon in Judge Daniel Merritt Jr.’s court. In April, Robert Contorno, 50, pleaded no contest to charges of organized fraud of less t...
Developer not insured under SDI policy, cannot claim damages 3 Jul 2013 | 11:08 pm
“In a recent appellate decision in New York, a developer sued its construction manager for fraudulent misrepresentation that the construction manager had obtained full Subguard™ coverage [subcontracto...
Report alleges contractor took advantage of federal programs, won $500M in contracts 3 Jul 2013 | 11:02 pm
“Yesterday a Congressional committee published a 157-page report alleging a government contractor used questionable behavior to win federal contracts that could be worth more than $500 million. The wo...
Ohio Engineering, Testing Firms Hit With Big DBE-Related Settlement 20 Jun 2013 | 01:03 am
“The federal government announced its largest construction-related False Claims Act settlement of 2013 earlier this month involving alleged disadvantaged business enterprise fraud by a collection of O...
Contractor Sues Fluor Team Over DOE Site Project Design 20 Jun 2013 | 01:00 am
“Claiming the Fluor Corp.-led team that manages and operates a federal nuclear-waste site in Aiken, S.C., intentionally misled it about the status of design completion on a $90-million plutonium and u...
Hensel Phelps to Pay Big Settlement Involving a San Diego Hilton 20 Jun 2013 | 12:56 am
“Thousands of workers who built a Hilton hotel in San Diego, CA, will receive more than $8 million owed to them in a prevailing-wage case, according to California’s Labor Commission. The hotel project...
Philadelphia Demolition Contractor Has Criminal Record for Insurance Fraud 6 Jun 2013 | 08:17 pm
“The contractor hired to demolish the building at 2136-38 Market St. in Philadelphia has a criminal record stemming from a phony car-wreck scheme with a Philadelphia police officer, according to court...
D.C. Cuts Forrester Payment by $1M Over MBE Joint Venture 6 Jun 2013 | 01:18 am
“One of the Washington, D.C. area’s biggest general contractors agreed to take $1 million less than it had requested for a big district high school renovation project because the district said the com...
Beware the ‘Conditions of Coverage’ Endorsement 23 May 2013 | 07:55 pm
“Exhibit A: A New York appellate court last fall upheld a carrier’s denial of coverage based on the insured’s failure to comply with policy conditions. The carrier’s endorsement listed a number of con...
