Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Construction Claim Arbitration and Res Judicata
8/20/19
By: Catherine Bednar The Supreme Court of Connecticut recently affirmed the Appellate Court’s determination that when a property owner and a general contractor enter into binding, unrestricted arbitration to resolve disputes, the subcontractors are presumptively in privity with the general contractor for purposes of precluding subsequent litigation against them. In Girolametti v. Michael Horton Assocs., 332…