Tag Archives: breach of contract

A contractor is suing a Virginia city for over $1.6 million in cost overruns associated with the construction of a $14 million fire station. Costello Construction of Maryland is suing the City of Charlottesville claiming that change orders and the city’s delays in answering 387 requests for information led to the additional costs in building the 38,000 square foot Fontaine Avenue station.

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A two-year old dispute between a volunteer fire company and Florida county has landed in court with the fire company claiming the county wrongfully terminated their agreement. The Keystone Heights Fire Department filed suit against Clay County alleging that the county breached a 15-year agreement that is not scheduled to expire until 2019. The county stopped using the KHFD for emergency response effective April 15, 2013.

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A Pennsylvania township who was sued for terminating a service contract with an EMS provider, has agreed to settle the dispute for $10,000. Sewickley Township has agreed to settle a suit brought by Jeannette EMS over the termination of a one-year ambulance service contract entered into in April, 2013.

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An ongoing dispute between a Florida fire district and a volunteer fire company has landed in court. The Key Largo Fire-EMS District has filed suit against the Key Largo Volunteer Fire Rescue Department. The nine-page complaint filed on July 3, ...

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Reno Firefighters IAFF Local 731 have filed suit against the city of Reno in an effort to block layoffs planned for July 1. At issue is whether the city’s move to eliminate 33 positions violates the collective bargaining agreement. The ...

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Two retired Chattanooga firefighters have filed a class action suit claiming the city’s attempt to cut their pensions is illegal. William Melhorn and James Gaston joined two retired Chattanooga police officers, Johnny Frazier and Reuben Salter, in filing a nine-page ...

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A class action lawsuit has been filed against the City of Savannah by fifty fire captains who are claiming the city has been underpaying them, in some cases paying them less than their subordinates. The suit filed Monday in Chatham ...

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A North Carolina fire captain who was terminated just 38 days after he was hired has filed suit in federal court alleging breach of contract, wrongful termination, and violation of his constitutional rights. Captain Marquis Solomon was terminated from the ...

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On Tuesday, twenty-eight US firefighters filed a class action lawsuit against Wackenhut Services International, Kellog-Brown & Root, LLC (KBR) and Halliburton Corp, claiming fraud, conspiracy, and breach of contract arising out of their work in Afghanistan and Iraq. The firefighters ...

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A case we discussed several weeks ago involving the fire chief in Peoria, Arizona has settled. Thomas Solberg was promised a pension as part of his benefit package when he left the Lee’s Summit, Missouri Fire Department in 2009 and ...

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Today’s burning question: If you were hired as a fire chief by a city who promised you eligibility for a state managed pension, and it turned out the state pension board ruled your were ineligible, what would you do? An Arizona ...

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  Five retired Portland, Oregon police officers and firefighters have filed a class action lawsuit against the Portland Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Board seeking to block a plan to recoup roughly $3 million in claimed overpayments to retirees ...

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A construction dispute between a California fire district and a contractor over refurbishing a fire station has ended up in court. Sonoma County Builders filed suit against Southern Marin Fire Protection District claiming the district failed to pay $156,014.94 of ...

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