Apr 19, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
We are very pleased to have a post today from one of our colleagues here at Bean, Kinney & Korman that focuses his practice on real estate related matters, John Kelly. We are looking forward to John’s contributions here on the blog moving forward and...
Apr 15, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
At the risk of engaging in a bit of direct self-promotion for perhaps the first time, today we have a guest post from Raighne Delaney, a shareholder of Bean, Kinney & Korman, P.C. and lead counsel in the successful dismissal of a case on April 12, 2010 pending...
Apr 14, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
We’ve got two new provisions to the Code of Virginia as of this last legislative session which create a perpetual, non-reverting fund to facilitate the remediation of property impacted by the use of “Defective Drywall” in residential construction....
Apr 12, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
I spent this weekend thinking about the significant victory for Virginia home owners in the Chinese drywall litigation that was tried as part of the pending class action in New Orleans. It may have mattered quite a bit that this ruling was issued in New Orleans as...
Apr 9, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
As reported today by Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly, seven Virginia families were awarded $2.6 million in damages by New Orleans federal Judge Eldon Fallon. The whopping verdict allowed recovery of extensive damages, but denied recovery due to loss of value stigma...
Apr 8, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
I had the pleasure and privilege of testifying as an expert witness in a case last week. I have been retained as an expert a number of times and have now been qualified as such in two court proceedings and an arbitration hearing. It is fascinating how the view of the...