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Following a seven-day jury trial in Riverside Superior Court, Collinsworth, Specht, Calkins & Giampaoli partners Scott Calkins and Anthony Gaeta won a trial victory when the jury returned a 12-0 defense verdict against one plaintiff homeowner, and awarded the other homeowner less than $2,000, an amount well below the defendant’s pre-trial CCP 998 Offers to…
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Ryan Swartz, a partner in the firm’s Arizona office, recently obtained summary judgment in defense of an action for money paid by the Plaintiff to remodel a home owned by one of the Defendants. Although Plaintiff was living in the home with the owner’s sister, and spent over $40,000 remodeling, he did so without ever…
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Mark Collinsworth spoke at the 2015 West Coast Casualty Construction Defect Conference in Anaheim, California. Mr. Collinsworth was part of a panel that discussed issued related to recovery of Crawford fees by a developer against subcontractors, as well as alternative strategies and uses of experts in construction defect cases. The conference is the largest construction…
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Mark Collinsworth is a featured speaker on “Guardians of the Subcontractor Galaxy” at this year’s West Coast Casualty Construction Defect Seminar on Friday, May 15th. West Coast Casualty is se to take place on May 14th and 15th at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California.
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This week Scott Calkins and Anthony Gaeta obtained a defense verdict in a three week multi-million dollar lawsuit against a developer client of CSC&G. The case initially involved construction defect claims and a claim of breach of fiduciary duty brought by the HOA of a downtown San Diego high-rise condominium. The construction defect claims were…
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