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Sheldon Adelson sues contractor over alleged home mold
Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 | 2:26 p.m.
Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, speaks during the news conference of the opening ceremony of the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007.
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Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sheldon Adelson is suing a house-building contractor, claiming mold has been growing in one of his luxury homes because of construction defects.
Adelson filed a lawsuit this month in federal court in California against Linden & Associates Inc. of Los Angeles over a 12-year-old, $1.6 million construction contract for the home in Malibu, Calif.
Phone and e-mail messages seeking comment on the lawsuits were left Friday with Linden.
The suit says exterior surfaces of the home have failed, allowing water to enter and damage walls, floors and carpets.
"Excessive moisture has led to a wide range of damage throughout the home such as excessive humidity, excessive condensation, water damage, mold growth, mold infestation and contamination, dryrot, deterioration, staining, cracking, corroding and other water- and moisture-related damage," the suit charges.
The lawsuit alleges Adelson has spent funds assessing and correcting the alleged defects, but that Linden has failed to indemnify Adelson for those costs. The suit alleges breach of warranty, breach of contract and negligence.
The suit was filed on behalf of Adelson by San Francisco attorney Clark Thiel of the firm Howrey LLP. Thiel, practicing in California and Nevada, focuses on construction cases including construction defect claims.
A 1997 contract filed in the case shows the construction manager for the home-building project was Bovis Construction Corp. -- a sister company to Lehrer McGovern Bovis Inc.
Lehrer McGovern Bovis was building Las Vegas Sands' Venetian hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip at that time.
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I wonder if Sheldon's lapdogs, NPRI, will cherry-pick some statistics to present at the hearings?
So Mr. Addelson doesn't support Tort Reform?
When it is Lawyers that get Iran-Contra Figure Ollie North off the hook, or defend Rush Limpbough from his doctor shopping mess they are OK, it's just that the little people don't deserve them, after all they are not important like the special one.
Why doesn't he hire Shelly Silver's law firm in NYC? It seems Sleazy Shelly has a beautiful job with the city of New York being Assembly speaker and working for one of the biggest tort law firms without disclosing his income. See if you can do this!
Leave the old guy alone. Pretty soon the Chinese are going to mug him in Macau.
This has got to be the Capital Sueing City in the world.
I wouldn't put it past Adelbrained to sue, just so he won't have to pay what he owes the contractor.
I'm beginning to think that Sheldon's middle name is Sue.
Did I miss something here? Excessive moisture in a home in Las Vegas? Get real. This is a desert climate.
Dryrot-that's not moisture!
Where's the defect?
Ksand, Good question as I would have expected our resident Patrick/KDR81 to have been one of the first to comment about this.
It's in Malibu.
When the storms roll in, the winds drive the rain THROUGH the walls!
Sheldon likely told the contractor that he wanted stucco exterior. Builder used products like around here where mold doesn't thrive because of the dryness of our climate.
So rich guy tells worker what he wants, worker does it, it fails, rich guy sues worker.
Fabulous world, made for rich guys to screw with lives. Blame the worker for doing what he was paid to do.
If I paid Fred a milliom bucks to build me a house in Seattle and it failed because I told him I wanted it built out of ADOBE just like in Tempe, how is it Fred's fault?
Can you imagine what it must be like to be the contractor for a guy like Sheldon? Did you ever kiss a fat dog's ass?
Stucco rubbish no doubt. Buyers should demand a brick outer skin.
My house is over 10 years old too. If I have problems, is the builder STILL liable?
Let's see, at the same time a billion dollar hotel is being built, a million dollar plus personal home is being built, using a subsidiary of the same contractor. The real question is: How much of the house costs were run through the hotel as a "business" expense?
Mr. Adelson, and any other homeowners with mold concerns, should check out the remarkable research on toxic mold removal done by environmental expert Dr Ed Close. Simply diffusing a therapeutic-grade essential oil regularly will likely result in an environment very hostile to mold.
http://www.secretofthieves.com/mold.cfm/...
It seems like this would make traditional remediation projects easier, more effective and affordable, as well as creating a healthier environment in which to live.
In one instance, 10,667 stachybotrys mold spores were identified in a per cubic meter area. After diffusing Thieves essential oil for forty-eight hours, Dr Close retested. Only thirteen stachybotrys remained. Similarly, 75,000 stachybotrys mold spores were identified in a sample of sheetrock. After seventy-two hours of diffusing, no stachybotrys mold spores remained. (Stachybotrys has a reputation for being the most toxic mold.)
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I'm curios as to why you rejected my comments? Is this not an open forum where professional opinions are welcome?
Craig Camel
President
Advanced Mold Diagnostics,LLC
Advanced Building Strategies,Inc
Philadelphia Chapter Director of the Indoor Air Quality Association
Notice how the gaming moguls have huge swaths of luxury properties, yet squeel like poor little piggies when somebody suggests that gaming pay more than a lowly 6.75% tax rate? Other states start at 18% and some go as high as 50%. Yet,Big Gaming pushes nevada politicians to continue to gouge low and moderate income Nevadans through sales and property taxes to pay the state's freight. Such paultry amounts do not provide even a minimum standard of quality of life for this state and its people. The same can be said of the mining industry, which is mostly Canadian and which pays far more taxes in others states than they do in Nevada. The mining industry wrote the mining tax laws in 1867 and they're still on the books. Our so-called political leaders sell us all down the drain every day of the week, month and year.
If the home was completed 12 years ago than he has missed the ten year statute of limitations for a construction defect claim.
Well I can say we just stayed in his Venetian Hotel this past week and he has a mold issue in his guest room showers. Maybe I should be talking to a lawyer.
Room 24-223
Most homeowner's insurance policies won't even cover mold infestations. Where does this guy get off holding the contractor liable after such an extended period of time. It reminds me of the lady down in Florida who sued big tobacco and was awarded 300 mil. I wonder how long she was smoking? Probably longer than 12 years!