Stephen Irving, Chair of P&A’s OSHA practice, with support from Houston Associate Blake Householder, recently secured another significant win for a civil contractor client in a high-stakes OSHA enforcement matter. Following a flash fire during the client’s work at an owner’s Houston-area petrochemical facility, which resulted in injuries to three of the contractor’s employees, OSHA conducted an inspection and ultimately [...] Read More

Peckar & Abramson has successfully represented Skanska USA Civil Southeast, Inc., one of the nation’s largest general contractors, in a lawsuit against it arising from a joint venture dispute connected to the Florida Department of Transportation’s $2.3 billion I‑4 Ultimate P3 project in Orlando, Florida, the largest project ever undertaken by FDOT. As previously reported, following a two-week bench trial [...] Read More

Peckar & Abramson Partner Edward Saldaña teamed with Senior Counsel Jeffrey Strauss to successfully represent a contractor client in a complex commercial lawsuit involving unpaid construction work performed for a commercial property owner on projects in Dallas, TX and contested mechanic’s liens. They secured a final summary judgment in the client’s favor from a Dallas District Court, awarding full recovery [...] Read More

Peckar & Abramson Partner Kim Altsuler and Senior Associate Kellie Ros obtained a total dismissal of construction defect claims against a homebuilder. When efforts at amicable resolution failed, our team doggedly pursued the client’s statute of limitations defense. After a change in judges left the client’s motion for summary judgment unresolved, we argued the motion again in front of the [...] Read More

Peckar & Abramson Partner Stephen Irving, with assistance from Associates Tara Munder and Blake Householder, successfully resolved a matter involving contested OSHA citations on behalf of a regional general contractor. After OSHA issued citations to the client alleging violations of the General Duty Clause and the duty to provide sufficient site lighting following a fatal accident, our team was engaged at [...] Read More