Jackson School District pays $4 million in long-running lawsuit
Jackson School District recently paid more than $4 million as part of a long-running lawsuit, according to an email sent to the district's employees.
The payment came after the state Supreme Court denied an appellate court application in the case.
The lawsuit stems from 2008 construction of the Events Center at the district's high school and concerns water/weather damage to the center's "cementitious roof deck."
Though the case names Penzel Construction as a litigant, the company's involvement in the case is on behalf of Total Electric Inc., the subcontractor for the construction project for which Penzel served as general contractor. The judgment against the school district in the case included actual damages of $800,000. In the intervening years, the case was appealed by the school district and has bounced from court to court, with various issues in question and fees and interest piling up, leading to the recent payment amount of just more than $4 million.
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(Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian)