Hurricane Damaged Trees Might Finally be Removed

Fifteenth JDC Judge Glennon Everett denied an injunction to Regency Construction, Inc., who had sued Lafayette after it refused to accept any of the bids from companies seeking to remove hurricane-damaged trees from more than 900 locations throughout the parish, reports The Advertiser. The confusion that led to the litigation arose when the Louisiana contractor's board allowed some contractors to bid without a contractor's license, provided that they would seek a license after being awarded a contract. Apparently, the contingency was not communicated or understood by one of the contractors. Accordingly, an effort to speed the clean-up effort has backfired and resulted in many trees that were slated for removal falling onto homes.

Posted by AJR at February 21, 2003 08:01 AM