Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Minnesota

Re: Legal Standard for breach

This is difficult to answer without knowing more about the facts and seeing your contract. However, the situation is analogous to a construction project where the general contractor has the duty to coordinate the work of the various subcontractors to ensure that they don't interfere with each other, and to run interference with the owner (in your case, presumably the ultimate customer for the computer services) so that the owner makes decisions on a timely basis and provides the necessary information. A party who is the "project manager" (analogous to a construction manager in construction cases) has similar duties if the other contractors/service providers are relying on him/her to provide coordination of the work effort.

Depending on what the contract says, if the subcontractors are harmed financially by the project manager's failure to carry out his/her coordination duties, the project manager may be liable to the subs for the losses they suffer.

Hope that is some help to you. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. In any event, good luck to you!

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