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Business

Landscape supply company pleads guilty in worker’s death

Bradley Hogue, a 19-year-old employee, died while working for a landscaping company. That company has since been criminally prosecuted. Click to read more.

June 28, 2016

Business

Landscaper receives record-breaking settlement following accident

A former Pennsylvania landscaper will receive a record $26.55 million from ServiceMaster and TruGreen following an accident. Click for more on the settlement.

June 8, 2016

Business

Landscaper resists state’s demand to restore right of way

After three years of warnings and deadlines, the state of Michigan has filed a lawsuit against a landscaper for his outdoor living creation. Click to read more.

June 6, 2016

Business

Settlement of workers’ H-2B lawsuit awaits final approval

A lawsuit involving 94 H-2B workers against a Pennsylvania landscaping company has reached conditional certification of the settlement class and a settlement.

April 25, 2016

Business

Trump takes residents to court over landscaping

Residents of Doral, Florida, are going to war with Donald Trump over the landscaping at what was once known as Doral Country Club -- bought by the Trump Organization in 2012.

March 3, 2016

Business

Caterpillar found guilty of stealing quick-coupler trade secrets

Caterpillar has been ordered to pay Miller UK Ltd. nearly $74 million after being found guilty by a federal court in Chicago of stealing trade secrets.

January 5, 2016

Business

Labor Department: Landscaper underpaid, falsely accused

Roger Orullian of Utah worked for a tree-trimming and stump removal company, Diamond Tree Experts, that failed to pay him and another employee overtime. Instead of receiving time and one-half for hours over 40 in a workweek, as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act, they were paid their “straight time” wages. The Labor Department’s […]

August 21, 2015

Business

New Mexico highway agency investigates landscape contractor

A New Mexico landscaping company that was contracted on highway re-vegetation projects is under investigation by the state’s Department of Transportation. The agency is looking into the company’s business practices, including allegations of altered invoices, payroll violations and the use of substandard materials. “We will put them out of business if we have to,” Department […]

July 22, 2015

Business

Man claims to be sprayed with pesticides, sues landscaping company

A landscaping company from Rockville, Maryland, is being sued for $55,000 by an Oregon man who says he was sprayed with pesticides by one of the company’s workers while sitting at an outdoor café on July 18, 2013. According to The Oregonian, Dennis Delano filed the suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court last week. Delano […]

July 20, 2015

Business

Maine landscaping business targeted in zoning lawsuit

The city council in Bangor, Maine, tabled an ordinance that would have clarified zoning laws pertaining to the operation of landscaping businesses in the district’s rural and agricultural areas. The proposed ordinance defines landscaping as “onsite and offsite business activities related to planting, bed preparation, installation of landscape materials and care and upkeep of the […]

May 5, 2015

Design-Build

Unlicensed Worker Sued for Landscape Services

Tired of mow-and-blow crews? See what happened to one Ohio worker when he is caught not having a license.

November 29, 2013

Design-Build

Securing Your Equipment Secures Your Business

One landscaping materials company is facing a serious lawsuit after a St. Clair County, Illinois woman claims the company overloaded her pickup truck with pavers. The woman was riding as a passenger when the vehicle crashed, and claims the company negligently loaded materials onto the trailer in way that made it “unstable and unsafe to operate, overloaded the trailer and loaded more materials on the trailer than was ordered,” according to The Madison-St. Clair Record.

May 31, 2013