Rachel B. Beauchamp Successfully Defends Attempts to Revise Minnesota’s Property Damage Recovery Standards
Rachel B. Beauchamp obtained summary judgment defining the scope of “loss of use” damages recoverable in a case involving multiple severed telecommunications cables. Attorneys around the country have brought lawsuits alleging that telecommunications companies are entitled to hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of dollars of damages for “loss of use” during the time it takes to repair damaged or severed cables even if the companies were able to reroute their traffic onto alternative capacity cables and have not issued any refunds to customers, have not lost any revenue, and have lost no profits. Some jurisdictions have allowed telecommunications companies … Read more