Litigation

H & H/Allied Litigation

H&H V. JIM AND LINDA BADALUCO, GRANDVIEW HOME IMPROVEMENT

H & H was started up by several former management officers from AMS-I and its various subsidiaries, after the AMS bankruptcy. Michael Kamps, and Jack and Michael Holwerda, are all former officers from the AMS-I companies who participated in starting and running H & H. Recently, Comfort Systems USA purchased H & H.

H & H has also resorted to filing liens against several customers and contractors in Michigan:
¨ H & H Plumbing filed a $45,244 lien against its own customer, the Ravines Condominiums, in Kent County Michigan.

¨ H & H liened its own customer, Robert Milne, of Grand Rapids, for $719.84.

¨ H & H liened Kenowa Auto Supply of Grandville, Michigan, for $845.

According to Kent County, Michigan court records, H & H has sued its customers and a fellow contractor in the case H & H v. Jim and Linda Badaluco, and Grandview Home Improvement.

The dispute started when H & H supplied plumbing materials to Grandview Home Improvement, who was building a home for the Badalucos in Grand Rapids. According to the court suit, Grandview Home Improvement did not promptly pay H & H. So H & H filed a lien for $3280. Although H &

H’s dispute was against Grandview Home Improvement, the lien itself was filed against the property of the hapless Badalucos. Once a lien is filed against your property, you may have problems obtaining – or keeping—your financing and loan arrangements. Your bank can look at that lien as a prior debt against the worth of your property, that interferes with the bank’s ability to loan money to you against the value of your property.

H&H V. ARNOLD VANDERWALL

H & H sued and liened yet another one of its customers, Arnold VanderWall, under similar circumstances. Grandview Home Improvement was performing improvements on the VanderWall home, and contracted with H & H for the plumbing. VanderWall paid everything he owed to Grandview. But when Grandview failed to pay H & H, H & H filed a lien for $2865 against VanderWall’s property, and both VanderWall, the property owner who had paid all of his own debts, and Grandview, were sued by H & H. H & H filed at least one additional court suit against Grandview on another matter.

ALLIED OWES ALMOST $200,000 IN BACK PAY for discriminatiON

The "new" Allied Mechanical (AMS-II) shares with the "old" Associated Mechanical (AMS-I) a willingness to employees’ rights. The Federal Court ordered AMS-II in April 1999 to pay $192,587.65 for discrimination.

Allied’s violation should concern customers of Allied. Wronged workers and their attorneys could seek damages against Allied’s customers, if the discrimination took place on the customer’s job site, and the customer was perceived as acquiescing in the discrimination.