Settlement Agreement Should Not Have Been Disclosed

A settlement agreement between a project owner and its constructor should not have been disclosed to the jury in the owner’s suit against the construction manager. This was true even though the constructor had been released from liability and would receive a share of any recovery from the CM in exchange for funding the litigation and cooperating with the owner at trial.

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