“Big Dig” Settlement Reached
The lawsuit over the controversial public works project, the Big Dig, has concluded with a settlement. The project has been plagued by construction defects resulting in damage and in one case, the loss of a human life.
The two companies that managed the design and construction of the costly Big Dig project here will pay more than $400 million in an agreement with the government over leaky tunnels and a fatal ceiling collapse.
State and federal officials said Wednesday that the companies, the Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation and Parsons Brinckerhoff, had acknowledged oversight failures and agreed to pay the state and federal governments $407 million. Several smaller companies will pay an additional $51 million, they said.
Michael J. Sullivan, the United States attorney in Boston, called the agreement “evidence of our commitment to vigorously investigate and prosecute those who have perpetrated a fraud on American taxpayers.” The Big Dig, long considered the nation’s most complex highway project, has cost about $15 billion over nearly two decades.
24 January 2008 | Business, Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Litigation | Comments
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