承包商的律师说，面对不断付款的利息支付，在宾夕法尼亚州特拉华县失去了2400万美元的陪审团裁决后，一家管道公司已与承包商公用事业线服务定居。
陪审团下令被告4月,PVR Marcellus Gas Gathering Inc., recently acquired by Dallas-based Regency Energy Partners, to pay Utility Line Services about $16.5 million for the amount it was owed. The jury awarded another $7.8 million for wrongful termination of part of PVR's contract with Utility Line Services.
该解决方案表明，州法律如何塑造争议中的法律策略。
每个蒙特数万美元积累h on the jury award under provisions of the Pennsylvania Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act. Under the law, contractors and subcontractors are owed an additional 1% per month on payments wrongfully withheld or delayed. If the contractor must litigate to collect funds, another 1% per month is due on the amount owed. In such cases the interest accrues at 24% per year.
In Utility Line Services' claim against PVR Marcellus Gas Gathering, interest under the state payment act and "penalty interest" from the litigation added roughly another $9.4 million to the potential total award.
“总之，”理查德·福尔兹（Richard W. Foltz Jr.“随着回报率，任何地方都没有投资。”
寻求近4000万美元
Combined with trial-related costs and fees, Utility Line Services had asked the judge to award it more than $39.55 million, which would have included all contract balances owed, interest under state law, wrongful termination damages and attorneys' fees. Foltz declined to disclose the final terms of the settlement, citing a confidentiality agreement.
An attorney for PVR Marcellus Gas Gathering, Ed Seglias, could not be reached for comment. His client had filed a $21-million counterclaim against Utility Line Services.
The conflict arose over a 2010 contract under which Utility Line Services agreed to build a 30-in.-dia natural gas pipeline in Lycoming County, Pa., along with gas-gathering lines and compressor stations. The contract specified payments within 30 days of invoicing, with work to be done in three phases. Just before New Year's Day 2012, PVR terminated the third phase of the contract.
