Peckar & Abramson's Miami office achieved a favorable outcome for its client, a surety that issued a performance bond for a general contractor, against claims from the project owner for failure to provide necessary notices under an A312-2010 performance bond. The project owner, as the plaintiff, sought to hold our client liable for alleged breaches under the performance bond related [...] Read More

Peckar & Abramson is proud to have represented one of the nation’s largest general contractors in the achievement of a $48 million award in its favor and the denial of a $135 million claim against it in Federal Court in the Middle District of Florida on May 3, 2024 arising out of the FDOT’s $2.3 billion reconstruction of I-4, a [...] Read More

Peckar & Abramson’s Texas lawyers won an appeal before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth District of Texas, entitling their client to recover consequential damages and rejecting the defendant’s argument that its proposal’s terms and conditions were part of the contract.  The case affirms long-standing contract principles under the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) and state common law. Contractors regularly [...] Read More

Peckar & Abramson is proud to have represented Flatiron/Dragados LLC in the achievement of the $400 million settlement announced by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) on October 12, 2023 arising out of the construction of the new Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi, Texas. In addition to settling all outstanding disputes and damage claims, TxDOT also removed the Notice of Default it [...] Read More

P&A’s New York lawyers secured a favorable judgment in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. The case involved claims by a New York hemp seed broker alleging that our client, a Colorado hemp grower, sold it defective hemp seeds. The broker, who resold the hemp seeds for a profit to third-party farmers, sought to [...] Read More