A Wisconsin contractor has settled a lawsuit alleging that she was out $217,499 after being forced to install a specific type of nurse-call system at a Chippewa Falls veterans home.
An electrical contractor who is suing the state in a dispute over a Chippewa Falls veterans home project will be going to trial early next year, despite entering into mediation with some of the parties she is suing.
Had state lawmakers agreed to pay LouAnne Berg’s construction company what she claims it lost on a veterans home contract, she said, she would have walked away happy.
The end of Wisconsin’s regular Legislative session dashed LouAnne Berg’s last chance of resolving her construction company’s contract claim against the state without going to court.
The state Senate voted Tuesday to pay $217,499 to a Hudson steel company whose CEO donated to the Republican senator who introduced the bill to provide the money.