This seems so strange to me. I work in for an A&E/CE firm and there is a process in place so that the parties cover themselves involving all sorts of liability.
1) The contractor isn’t going to purchase the epoxy if the engineers don’t approve the submittals.
2) The expoy manufacturer isn’t going to supply the contractor unless the contractor orders the epoxy.
3) The client isn’t going to approve the design unless the engineers provide detail drawings and calculations showing the fitness of the design,
4)The contractor isn’t going to build it unless the drawing is stamoed and signed.
Where did the process fail here?
Then again, it’s a small, out-of-state family-owned corporation, which leads some to suspect that the attorney general of Mass is attempting to scapegoat the actor with the least political pull.
................Where did the process fail here?
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Probably no failed process!
The lawyers decided to go after the weakest link to show damage to their client; then they escalate up the chain of deepest pockets, to get into the real money.
The deceased family will probably wind up with the $1 million; the schmuck lawyers will probably turn it into a class action suit for all the “pain and suffering” that thousands of commuters had to endure in traversing the tunnels. Then they will pocket $100 million, while sending out $2.00 checks to the class action participants.