MPP Partners D. Creighton Sebra and Nicholas M. Wieczorek will be presenting this topic on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 3:45 - 5:00 PM at ACEC's 2010 Fall Conference, being held this year in Las Corabas, Puerto Rico.
Design professionals received some practical risk management tips and were brought up to date on major economic loss cases across the country in a March 23 webinar presented by MPP attorneys Nick Wieczorek and Richard Nakamura for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). Entitled "Understanding The Economic Loss Doctrine: Las Vegas And Beyond," the 90-minute program discussed last year’s watershed opinion from the Nevada Supreme Court in Terracon v. Mandalay Bay Resort Group. Terracon upheld the economic loss doctrine in favor of a geotechnical firm that faced a $50 million damages claim on its $28,500 contract. The webinar looked at state supreme court cases from Washington, Utah and Arizona decided after Terracon, and offered specific suggestions to avoid the type of crushing liability claims that can be made against construction and design professionals working on commercial projects. MPP co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of ACEC in Terracon, and has been involved in several matters and appeals involving the economic loss doctrine.
MPP Partners Mehrdad Farivar, Mark Hellenkamp, Gerald Schneeweis and Nicholas Wieczorek spoke in Las Vegas on the following topics:
Partners Jeffrey S. Barron and Nicholas M. Wieczorek spoke on "Selected Issues Concerning Insurer Duties to Defend and Settle" at a Las Vegas conference. Their program covered the following: The Duty to Defend
Duty to Settle