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Contract Law Appellate Court Opinion

by Booth, George

 

AC41054 - Semac Electric Co. v.Skanska USA Building, Inc. (Breach of contract; fraud; "In this action arising from the expansion and renovation of Stamford Hospital (hospital), both parties, the plaintiff, Semac Electric Company, Inc. (Semac), and the defendant, Skanska USA Building, Inc. (Skanska), appeal from the judgment of the trial court, challenging the court's determinations that they both breached the contract between them, and awarding Skanska damages in the amount of $3,857,130.77, as reimbursement for funds that Skanska had overpaid to Semac for work that Semac had not performed. Skanska also claims that the trial court erred in finding that the individual third-party defendants, Kevin Pope and Thomas Scanlon, the chief financial officer of Semac and the president of Semac, respectively, did not engage in fraudulent conduct when they signed, under oath, invoices misrepresenting that Semac had paid other subcontractors for certain goods and services. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.")