In trying to win over $50 million in damages from the original engineering and construction management team on the St. Louis light rail system extension, Larry Salci says he intends to show more than design errors. Salci, the system’s CEO, intends to show that the team—which includes Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York City, and Jacobs Engineering, Pasadena, Calif.—committed fraud.
To recover cost overruns on the troubled project, Salci will need to prove fraud. Liability for former design and construction management team Cross County Collaborative is capped at $8 million. Salci says the limit is because of professional errors and omissions insurance, but CCC says the limit is contractual. Proving fraud would get past these contractual and insurance limitations.