CT case involving personal liability of builder in construction defect case. Many times the builder's LLC protects him or her personally from lawsuit judgments, limiting the likelihood of collecting if you win. In this case the court allowed the homeowner to hold the builder personally liable as well as his company.
(FL) Developer and builder John Zacco, Thoroughbred Homes, raised development's HOA fees from $25 mo. to $250 mo. per household. Homeowners say he raised fees to cover his legal costs for problems he himself created, (e.g. shoddy work, suing his customers, not being properly licensed, unenforceable sales contracts). The developer could foreclose on the homes regardless of paid up status of homeowner's mortgages.
(NJ) Donald E. Castor, who has done business as OMT Construction, Kellogg Hill Contracting and DLC Builders, allegedly onIy partially built the couple's house, walking away from the job with their money pocketed and without paying subcontractors.
In this case, the homes are contaminated with hydrogen sulfide. The highly corrosive gas has been found in homes with drywall imported from China during the early to mid-2000s. It has been blamed for corroding air-conditioning coils and metals in electronics, and causing fires. Residents also said that the gas is what is causing the symptoms they've been experiencing.
(KY) Builder Wendell Lynn Willham, Arbor Ridge Development Inc. and American Dream Builders Inc., argues that his bankruptcy filing should get him out of fraud charges for taking customers' money, delivering nothing, and leaving them without even clear title to their land.
Newer development had improperly engineer grading and drainage, causing serious erosion, sinkholes. Builders, developers, city, point fingers but don't do anything.
Fairgreen Development; Northridge Residential; Todd Levent; city of Canton.
Michael Rand, former chief accounting officer for Beazer Homes, indicted on 11 charges; alleged to have cooked the books for Beazer; also, securities fraud, obstruction of justice, witness tampering. WSJ article has some background info on Beazer's past settlements for lending practices, etc., as well.
The Maryland Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division has ordered Lanham-based homebuilder, Derek K. McDaniels, and his Lanham-based company, McDaniels Homes, to pay more than $500,000 in restitution to consumers and penalties to the state, Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler said in a release.
