Lake Hills Investments, LLC v. Rushforth Construction Co., Inc.: Where the Design is Defective, but the Contractor’s Work is Also Defective, the Contractor Does Not Have a Complete Defense to Defect Claims by Virtue of the Defective Design Does a…

Mediation and arbitration are commonly referred to as “Alternative Dispute Resolution” or “ADR.”  However, a pre-trial mediation is not simply an “alternative.”  Mediation is the most common method of resolving construction disputes in Washington; and, in fact, is required by…