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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humanoid" data-source="post: 8540624" data-attributes="member: 301119">British bridge-building firm Mabey & Johnson is suing five insurance companies in a wrangle over who should foot the bill for repairs to 49 bridges built in developing countries during the early 1990s. After the collapse of a bridge over the river Omo in south-west Ethiopia seven years ago, in September 1996, Mabey & Johnson had been concerned about problems that might occur with bridges it had built in Peru, the Dominican Republic and Ghana between 1992 and 1995. The writ states: 'Mabey & Johnson also realised that other bridges it had supplied might collapse, leading to other claims from customers.' Richard Glover, the commercial director of Mabey & Johnson, said the bridge collapse in Ethiopia was caused by a design fault for which the company accepted responsibility.</blockquote>

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