DAMICO v. LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC

Opinion No. 28114.

437 S.C. 596 (2022)

879 S.E.2d 746

Patricia DAMICO and Lenna Lucas, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Joshua and Brettany Buetow, Edward and Sylvia Dengg, Jonathan and Theresa Douglass, Anthony and Stacey Ray, Danny and Ellen Davis Morrow, Czara and Chad England, Bryan and Cynthia Camara, and Matthew Collins, Respondents, v. LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC, Spring Grove Plantation Development, Inc., Manale Landscaping, LLC, Super Concrete of SC, Inc., Southern Green, Inc., TJB Trucking/Leasing, LLC, Paragon Site Constructors, Inc., Civil Site Environmental and Rick Bryant, Individually, Defendants, of which Spring Grove Plantation Development, Inc., Manale Landscaping, LLC, Super Concrete of SC, Inc., Southern Green, Inc., TJB Trucking/Leasing, LLC, and Civil Site Environmental are Respondents. and Lennar Carolinas, LLC, Appellant, v. The Earthworks Group, Inc., Volkmar Consulting Services, LLC, Geometrics Consulting, LLC, Land/Site Services, Inc., Myers Landscaping, Inc., A.C. & A. Concrete, Inc., Knight's Concrete Products, Inc., Knight's Redi-Mix, Inc., Coastal Concrete Southeast, LLC, Coastal Concrete Southeast II, LLC, Guaranteed Framing, LLC, Ozzy Construction, LLC, Construction Applicators Charleston, LLC, LA New Enterprises, LLC, Decor Corporation, DVS, Inc., Raul Martinez Masonry, LLC, Alpha Omega Construction Group, Inc., South Carolina Exteriors, LLC, Builders Firstsource-Southeast Group, LLC, and Low Country Renovations and Siding, LLP, Third-Party Defendants, of which Volkmar Consulting Services, LLC, Land/Site Services, Inc., Myers Landscaping, Inc., A.C. & A. Concrete, Inc., Knight's Concrete Products, Inc., Knight's Redi-Mix, Inc., Coastal Concrete Southeast, LLC, Coastal Concrete Southeast II, LLC, Guaranteed Framing, LLC, Ozzy Construction, LLC, Construction Applicators Charleston, LLC, LA New Enterprises, LLC, Decor Corporation, DVS, Inc., Raul Martinez Masonry, LLC, Alpha Omega Construction Group, Inc., South Carolina Exteriors, LLC, Builders Firstsource-Southeast Group, LLC, are also Respondents. and Decor Corporation, Fourth Party Plaintiff, v. Baranov Flooring, LLC, DJ Construction Services, LLC, Creative Wood Floors, LLC, Geraldo Cunha, Ebenezer Flooring, LLC, Emmanuel Flooring and Siding, LLC, Eusi Flooring and Covering, LLC, Nicolas Flores, Alexander Martinez, Isidru Mejia, Juan Perez, N&B Construction, LLC, Jose Dias Rodrigues, Livia Sousa, Jose Paz Castro Hernandez, Divinio Aperecido Corgosinho, Ricardo Chiche, CEBS Construction, Bayshore Siding and Flooring, Sebastio Luiz de Araujo, and John Does 1-4, Fourth-Party Defendants. of whom Patricia Damico, Joshua and Brettany Beutow, Bryan and Cynthia Camara, Matthew Collins, Jonathan and Teresa Douglas, Czarra and Chad England, Lena Lucas, and Danny and Ellen Davis Morrow are the Petitioners.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed September 14, 2022.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse Sanchez , of The Law Office of Jesse Sanchez, John Calvin Hayes IV , of Hayes Law Firm, LLC, and Catherine Dunn Meehan , of The Steinberg Law Firm, LLP, all of Charleston; and Michael J. Jordan , of The Steinberg Law Firm, LLP, of Goose Creek, all for Petitioners.

James Lynn Werner , Jenna Brooke Kiziah McGee , and Katon Edwards Dawson Jr. , all of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, of Columbia, for Respondent Lennar Carolinas, LLC; Robert Trippett Boineau , Heath McAlvin Stewart III , and John Adam Ribock , all of McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondent Spring Grove Plantation Development, Inc.; Carmen Ganjehsani , James H. Elliott Jr. , and Francis Heyward Grimball , all of Richardson, Plowden, & Robinson, of Columbia, for Respondents Manale Landscaping, LLC and Decor Corporation; Samia Hanafi Nettles , of Richardson Plowden & Robinson, PA, of Charleston, for Respondent Decor Corporation; Theodore L. Manos , of Robertson Hollingsworth Manos & Rahn, LLC for Respondent Super Concrete of SC; David Cooper Cleveland and Trey Matthew Nicolette , both of Clawson and Staubes, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent Myers Landscaping, Inc.; Rogers Edward Harrell III , of Murphy & Grantland, PA, of Columbia, for Respondents Knight's Concrete Products, Inc. and Knight's Redi-Mix, Inc.; Steven L. Smith and Zachary James Closser , both of Smith Closser, of Charleston, and Samuel Melvil Wheeler , of Whitfield-Cargile Law, PLLC, of Brevard, NC, all for Respondent Knight's Concrete Products, Inc.; Brent M. Boyd and Timothy J. Newton , both of Murphy & Grantland, PA, of Columbia, for Respondents Coastal Concrete Southeast, LLC and Coastal Concrete Southeast II, LLC; Alan Ross Belcher Jr. and Elizabeth Wieters , both of Hall Booth Smith, PC, of Mount Pleasant , and Christine Companion Varnado , of Siebels Law Firm, of Charleston, all for Respondent Guaranteed Framing, LLC; Erin DuBose Dean , of Tupper, Grimsley, Dean & Canaday, PA, of Beaufort, for Respondents LA New Enterprises Construction, Inc. and Raul Martinez Masonry; Stephen Lynwood Brown and Catherine Holland Chase , both of Clement Rivers, LLP, of Charleston, and Preston Bruce Dawkins Jr. , of Aiken Bridges Elliott Tyler & Saleeby, PA, of Florence, all for Respondent Alpha Omega Construction Group, Inc.; and Jenny Costa Honeycutt , of Best Honeycutt, PA, of Charleston, for Respondent South Carolina Exteriors, LLC; Clarke W. DuBose , of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA, of Columbia, for Respondent Southern Green, Inc.; Stephen P. Hughes , of Howell Gibson & Hughes, PA, of Beaufort, for Respondent Builders Firstsource-Southeast Group, LLC; Ronald G. Tate Jr. , of Gallivan, White & Boyd, PA, and Robert Batten Farrar , of Rogers Townsend, LLC, both of Greenville, for Respondent Volkmar Consulting Services, LLC; Sidney Markey Stubbs , of Baker Ravenel & Bender, LLP, of Columbia, for Respondent DVS, Inc.; David Shuler Black , of Howell Gibson & Hughes, PA, of Beaufort, for Respondent TJB Trucking/Leasing, LLC; Shanna Milcetich Stephens and Wade Coleman Lawrimore , both of Anderson Reynolds & Stephens, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent A.C.&A. Concrete, Inc.; John Elliott Rogers II , of Ward Law Firm, PA, of Spartanburg, for Respondent Land/Site Services, Inc.; David Starr Cobb , of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, PA, of Charleston, for Respondent Construction Applicators Charleston, LLC; Kathy Aboe Carlsten , of Copeland, Stair, Valz & Lovell, LLP, and N. Keith Emge Jr. , of Resnick & Louis, PC, both of Charleston, for Respondent Civil Site Environmental, Inc.; Scott Harris Winograd , Jeffrey A. Ross , and Philip Paul Cristaldi III , all of Ross & Cristaldi, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, for Respondent Ozzy Construction, LLC.


This case arises out of a construction defect suit brought by a number of homeowners (Petitioners) against their homebuilder and general contractor, Lennar Carolinas, LLC (Lennar). Lennar moved to compel arbitration, citing the arbitration provisions in a series of contracts signed by Petitioners at the time they purchased their...

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