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The city paid $436,000 to settle a claim that its infrastructure department breached a contract, according to a report its legal department has filed with city councillors.
Lawsuits over injuries suffered on buses and in minor collisions with city vehicles are fairly common. Allegations the city breached a contract are rare. City policy is not to discuss the details of any such legal claim, though, so what the department is alleged to have done stays under wraps.
The infrastructure department plans and oversees the construction of things such as bridges and sewer pipes. It’s been involved in legal disputes over delayed projects such as the new Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge and the footbridge over the Airport Parkway at South Keys.
Besides the breach-of-contract claim, the report says the city paid out a claim for $107,000 over an injury someone suffered at the hands of a transit employee, a $141,000 claim over an injury someone suffered on a city pathway, and a $181,000 claim over an “other third-party bodily injury” that has to do with the Public Works department. Another 122 smaller settlements added up to $789,000.
The city also lost a fight over releasing information about its contract with a taxi company that provides Para Transpo services on contract, when an adjudicator found the city had wrongly withheld financial and commercial information in the contract from the person who filed a formal request for it.
Outside lawyers, whom the city hires to handle particularly complex or time-consuming cases, got nearly $975,000 in city business in that quarter, nearly half of it going to law firm Caza Saikaley for litigation assignments.
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Lawsuits over injuries suffered on buses and in minor collisions with city vehicles are fairly common. Allegations the city breached a contract are rare. City policy is not to discuss the details of any such legal claim, though, so what the department is alleged to have done stays under wraps.
The infrastructure department plans and oversees the construction of things such as bridges and sewer pipes. It’s been involved in legal disputes over delayed projects such as the new Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge and the footbridge over the Airport Parkway at South Keys.
Besides the breach-of-contract claim, the report says the city paid out a claim for $107,000 over an injury someone suffered at the hands of a transit employee, a $141,000 claim over an injury someone suffered on a city pathway, and a $181,000 claim over an “other third-party bodily injury” that has to do with the Public Works department. Another 122 smaller settlements added up to $789,000.
The city also lost a fight over releasing information about its contract with a taxi company that provides Para Transpo services on contract, when an adjudicator found the city had wrongly withheld financial and commercial information in the contract from the person who filed a formal request for it.
Outside lawyers, whom the city hires to handle particularly complex or time-consuming cases, got nearly $975,000 in city business in that quarter, nearly half of it going to law firm Caza Saikaley for litigation assignments.
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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