Indemnification May Be Available To Engineer For Defects At Treatment Plant

(June 15, 2023, 11:12 AM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In affirming and denying several orders by a trial court, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals found that an engineering firm provided enough evidence to support its third-party claims of indemnification against a motion to dismiss and motion for summary judgment by showing that the alleged construction defects at a new wastewater treatment plant might have been caused by three companies that performed the construction and not the engineer’s alleged design defects....