Partial Acquisitions: Project Benefits and Mitigation Strategies Related to Offsetting Severance Damages

Nossaman’s Bernadette Duran-Brown and Aleene Madikians and our guest speaker, Robert Caringella from Jones, Roach & Caringella, Inc., covered the following topics:

• A legal primer on severance damages in partial acquisitions;
• An in-depth review of the legal standards granting condemning entities the ability to offset severance damages with project benefits; and
• An examination of case studies illustrating how project benefits can be identified and valued in a manner that can mitigate severance damages in partial acquisitions.