SCHNEIDER ELEC. BLDGS. v. WESTERN SURETY

No. 96, September Term, 2016.

165 A.3d 485 (2017)

454 Md. 698

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC BUILDINGS CRITICAL SYSTEMS, INC. v. WESTERN SURETY COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 28, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Mark S. Dachille ( Kevin B. Mattingly , Huddles Jones Sortebere & Dachille, P.C., Columbia, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by Patrick J. Madirran ( Patrick M. Pike , Pike & Gilliss, LLC, Towson, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before Barbera, C.J., Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, JJ.


This case asks us to define the scope of a mandatory arbitration clause incorporated by reference into a web of construction contracts. It presents the question of whether a surety who issued a performance bond on a subcontract is bound by that contract's arbitration clause when the surety is jointly and severally liable for the "performance...

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