Practice Areas & Industries: Roetzel & Andress, A Legal Professional Association

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Construction Litigation attorneys at Roetzel & Andress help our clients address the fast-moving and often times confrontational construction issues and construction claims they face. Members of our group have litigated construction cases in every forum, including federal and state courts, mediation and arbitration proceedings, and before administrative agencies and appeal boards. We represent private and public owners, developers, public entities, insurance companies, financial institutions, general and specialty contractors, subcontractors, construction managers, design professionals, engineers, and suppliers.

Our Construction Litigation attorneys are experienced at handling complicated situations surrounding construction site accidents, job site safety, property damage, changed conditions, professional negligence, and related concerns. We also coordinate immediate response teams for catastrophic accidents involving severe property damage due to structural failures, mechanical failures, collapses, cave-ins, or other causes. We assist clients who have experienced an injury or accident that results in an OSHA investigation or are subjected to an OSHA on-site investigation, from initial inspection through closing conference and into administrative litigation, if necessary. We help clients secure and preserve relevant evidence, retain appropriate experts and consultants, and deal with governmental investigations.

Services Available

• AAA mediation and arbitration
• Bid disputes
• Contractor / subcontractor disputes
• Emergency response and crisis management
• Environmental disputes
• OSHA inspections, citations
• Owner / architect disputes
• Owner / contractor disputes
• Payment disputes
• Schedule disputes
• Surety and insurance company disputes

Representative Matters

• Represented a steel erection subcontractor in a dispute with a general contractor over construction of five national retail chain stores throughout the Midwest
• Defended an excavator in a two-week jury trial involving a foundation cave-in at a construction site
• Represented a construction management firm in obtaining the dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit filed as a result of the electrocution death of a subcontractor's employee on a large commercial building project
• Represented an engineering firm in wrongful death litigation concerning design of a segmental retaining wall in a commercial building project
• Represented an international cement manufacturer in a jury trial for a bond claim against the asphalt manufacturer parent companies for unpaid aggregate which was incorporated into public construction project
• Defended a roofing company before OSHA in a fall protection case where it was alleged that the company failed to provide or require the use of fall protection
• Represented a national hotel chain in construction litigation involving a dispute with a general contractor over construction of a $5 million hotel