Insurer Liberty Mutual has argued that CPB Contractors and John Holland’s $150 million in claims in relation to Sydney’s North West Rail project are largely out of time, in a lawsuit alleging the insurer breached its duty of good faith.
Liquidators for companies in the Dyldam Group have won an extension until early 2027 for further investigation of the defunct developer.
Engineering firm WSP has secured a stay of a new suit by Canberra builder Morris Construction alleging it should be on the hook for engineering and design failures by a subsidiary over a troubled Kingston development.
A judge has made contempt findings against a real estate agent who attached discovered documents to emails that railed against alleged collusion between a local council and the EPA, but stopped short of finding he intimidated witnesses in a spat over a Ballarat development.
Engineering firm Calibre can’t get minutes of meetings involving Probuild and the owners of the Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria to defend itself in $356 million defects suit.
One of 50 subcontractors left unpaid after Victoria’s Department of Education nixed three construction project contracts with failed builder Roberts Co (VIC) is set to join in proceedings seeking declarations under a deed of company arrangement.
CBRE has denied taking unlawful adverse action against an employee who alleges he was forced to continue working with a manager who falsely accused him of killing his rabbit and asked him which female co-workers he would have sex with.
Engineering firm GHD Australia, which was recently joined to a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, has said it may bring cross-claims against its fellow defendants.
A judge has set aside a SOPA determination after finding a verbal conversation between a developer and a crane supplier did not constitute a construction contract.
HWL Ebsworth and former partner Dennis Bluth have been hit with a new lawsuit in the Victorian Supreme Court after allegedly providing negligent advice regarding a development in south-west Sydney.