8th Circuit Affirms $1M Judgment In Favor Of General Contractor’s Surety

(April 16, 2019, 12:04 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 12 affirmed a lower federal court’s $1,020,000 judgment in favor of a general contractor’s surety for the full amount of a subcontractor’s surety performance bond in a dispute over costs arising from the subcontractor’s default in completing a federal government construction project (United States of America for the use of Wesco Distribution, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, No. 18-1455, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 10919)....