DAMICO v. LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC

Opinion No. 5730.

430 S.C. 188 (2020)

844 S.E.2d 66

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.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed June 10, 2020.

Rehearing Denied July 1, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Lynn Werner and Katon Edwards Dawson, Jr. , both of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, of Columbia, and Jenna Brooke Kiziah McGee , of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, of Charleston, all for Appellant.

Thomas Frank Dougall , William Ansel Collins, Jr. , and Michal Kalwajtys , all of Dougall & Collins, of Elgin, for Respondent Ozzy Construction, LLC.

Stephen P. Hughes , of Howell Gibson & Hughes, PA, of Beaufort, for Respondent Builders Firstsource-Southeast Group, LLC.

Steven L. Smith , Zachary James Closser , and Samuel Melvil Wheeler , all of Smith Closser, PA, of Charleston; and Rogers Edward Harrell, III , of Murphy & Grantland, PA, of Columbia, all for Respondents Knight's Concrete Products, Inc. and Knight's Redi-Mix, Inc.

Ronald G. Tate, Jr. , and Robert Batten Farrar , both of Gallivan, White & Boyd, PA, of Greenville, for Respondent Volkmar Consulting Services, LLC.

Sidney Markey Stubbs , of Baker Ravenel & Bender, LLP, of Columbia, for Respondent DVS, Inc.

David Cooper Cleveland and Trey Matthew Nicolette , both of Clawson & Staubes, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent Myers Landscaping, Inc.

John Calvin Hayes, IV , of Hayes Law Firm, LLC, Jesse Sanchez , of The Law Office of Jesse Sanchez, both of Charleston; Michael J. Jordan , of The Steinberg Law Firm, LLP, of Goose Creek; and Catherine Dunn Meehan , of The Steinberg Law Firm, LLP, of Charleston, all for Respondents Patricia Damico, Joshua Buetow, Brettany Buetow, Bryan Camara, Cynthia Camara, Matthew Collins, Ellen Davis Morrow, Jonathan Douglass, Theresa Douglass, Czara England, Chad England, Lenna Lucas, and Danny Morrow.

Brent Morris Boyd , Timothy J. Newton , and Rogers Edward Harrell, III , all of Murphy & Grantland, PA, of Columbia, for Respondents Coastal Concrete Southeast, LLC, and Coastal Concrete Southeast II, LLC.

David Shuler Black , of Howell Gibson & Hughes, PA, of Beaufort, for Respondent TJB Trucking/Leasing, LLC.

Erin DuBose Dean , of Tupper, Grimsley, Dean & Canaday, P.A., of Beaufort, for Respondents LA New Enterprises, LLC, and Raul Martinez Masonry, LLC.

Christine Companion Varnado , of Seibels Law Firm, PA, of Charleston; and Alan Ross Belcher, Jr. , and Derek Michael Newberry , both of Hall Booth Smith, PC, of Mt. Pleasant, all for Respondent Guaranteed Framing, LLC.

Stephen Lynwood Brown and Catherine Holland Chase , both of Young Clement Rivers, of Charleston; and Preston Bruce Dawkins, Jr. , of Aiken Bridges Elliott Tyler & Saleeby, P.A., of Florence, all for Respondent Alpha Omega Construction Group, Inc.

David Starr Cobb , of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, PA, of Charleston, and Everett Augustus Kendall, II , and Brian Lincoln Craven , both of Murphy & Grantland, PA, of Columbia, all for Respondent Construction Applicators Charleston, LLC.

Shanna Milcetich Stephens and Wade Coleman Lawrimore , both of Anderson Reynolds & Stephens, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent A.C.& A. Concrete, Inc.

Robert Trippett Boineau, III , Heath McAlvin Stewart, III , and John Adam Ribock , all of McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondent Spring Grove Plantation Development, Inc.

Bachman S. Smith, IV , of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA, of Charleston, for Respondent Southern Green, Inc.

John Elliott Rogers, II , of The Ward Law Firm, PA, of Spartanburg, for Respondent Land/Site Services, Inc.

Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani , of Richardson Plowden & Robinson, PA, of Columbia, and Samia Hanafi Nettles , of Richardson Plowden & Robinson, PA, of Mt. Pleasant for Respondent Decor Corporation.

Jenny Costa Honeycutt , of Best Honeycutt, P.A., of Charleston, for Respondent South Carolina Exteriors, LLC.

Michael Edward Wright , of Robertson Hollingsworth Manos & Rahn, LLC, and Michael Wade Allen, Jr. , and R. Patrick Flynn , both of Pope Flynn, LLC, all of Charleston, all for Respondent Super Concrete of SC.

Francis Heyward Grimball and James H. Elliott, Jr. , both of Richardson Plowden & Robinson, PA, of Mt. Pleasant, for Respondent Manale Landscaping, LLC.

Kathy Aboe Carlsten , of Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell, LLP, and Keith Emge, Jr. , of Resnick & Louis, P.C., both of Charleston, for Respondent Civil Site Environmental, Inc.


Certain homeowners in a Berkeley County development sued the general contractor Lennar Carolinas, LLC (Lennar), the developer, and various subcontractors, alleging defective construction. Lennar impleaded other subcontractors as third party defendants and moved to compel arbitration of the entire dispute. The circuit court denied the motion...

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