litigation

An appeals court in Puerto Rico has said the state toll authority ACT must rebid a contract it awarded to United Toll Systems for cash toll colelction. The award was contested by TransCore which asked the court to give it the contract. So the result was only a partial win for TransCore.

None of the bidders complied with the filing requirements for doing business in PR it was discovered after the selection.

The toll authority having evaluated UTS as producing the best-value proposal then assigned the contract to UTS after it had corrected the filing.
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Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) have formally released Figg Engineering from liability in the protracted litigation over responsibility for the collapse of a pier on the Reversible Express Lanes during construction in April 2004. After the collapse of one pier  another was found to have dropped a few inches. 185 words  read more »

The US Department of Justice and the Massachusetts Attorney General have announced a settlement in which joint venture project managers Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff (B/PB) will pay $407m (Bechtel at least $352m, PB at least $47m) for negligence at the Big Dig project of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. 24 other companies that did shoddy engineering work as section designers will pay $51m in a related 'global settlement' of federal and state claims.
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The quirkly little Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or 'Wobblies' have received lawyers' letters from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and from the Pike's rest stop concessionaire HMS Host Corp warning them of damages claims if they carry out threats to picket Starbucks restaurants on the Turnpike.
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