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Duke Energy has spent hundreds of millions of dollars so far on coal ash cleanups like this one at the former Riverbend Plant in Gaston County in 2017. It sued insurers who refused to help pay for the cleanups.
Duke Energy has reached a confidential settlement with two of a group of insurance
companies it sued four years ago over coal ash cleanups. Charlotte-based Duke sued after the companies refused to help pay for multi-billion-dollar cleanups required by state and federal laws at coal-fired power plants.
In a
filing with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Duke says French insurer Generali, formerly known as Le Continent, paid the undisclosed settlement on May 7. Duke also recently settled with another French company, L Etoile, according to Duke spokesman Bill Norton.
/ The legal dispute concerns payment for paving and other services on the I-77 toll lanes between 2016 and 2020. This section was under construction in 2017.
A Charlotte construction company is suing developers of the I-77 Express Lanes, saying it s owed $47.7 million for paving and other work.
Blythe Development and the related Blythe Brothers Asphalt filed claims in Iredell County Superior Court in January against I-77 Mobility Partners and Sugar Creek Construction. The construction companies also filed two related breach-of-contract suits in Mecklenburg County Superior Court in February.
The Blythe companies say they signed three contracts with the developers for laying down stone and asphalt, bridge work, and grading between 2016 and 2020. The claims filed in Iredell County are technically known as mechanic s liens and seek repayment of:
Former Lake Arbor Apartments officials settle residents lawsuit
Owners, management to pay $547,500
PHOTO | TROY HULL
The former owners and management of Lake Arbor Apartments on Tuckaseegee Road settled a lawsuit brought by residents who alleged they were evicted for complaining about uninhabitable living conditions.
The former owners and management of Lake Arbor Apartments have settled a lawsuit brought by former residents who alleged they were evicted for complaining the property was uninhabitable.
The defendants – Lake Arbor Dean TIC, Lake Arbor 80M TIC, Broad Management Group and Wellington Advisors – agreed to pay $547,500, to close the complaint filed in Mecklenburg County Superior Court. The suit alleged Lake Arbor officials violated local housing code and state consumer protection laws between 2015 and 2019 by illegally collecting rent without addressing dangerous living conditions at the complex on Tuckaseegee Road.