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March 9, 2009

Safeco Field paint case raises liability questions

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
Associated Press Writer

Washington's high court has ruled that the company that built Safeco Field may have to pay for repairing a bad paint job at the stadium, even though the problem was discovered after the statute of limitations on defective construction had expired.

The Mariners and the Public Facilities District discovered in 2005 that special paint applied to the steel beams of Safeco Field was blistering. The paint was removed and 29,000 square feet of structural steel beams and columns were repainted at a cost of nearly $2.5 million.


 
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