HDR last year agreed to pay $12 million to the design-build construction contractor Archer Western-de Moya Group to settle its claims that the engineer had incompletely designed and under-designed Miami's new Signature Bridge  when the joint venture committed to a fixed price prior to construction in 2018. As part of the April 2025 settlement of the negligence, gross negligence and breach-of-contract lawsuit, Archer Western-de Moya released $30 million in fees it had been withholding from the Omaha-based engineer. The pact put to rest the joint venture's lawsuit in federal district court in Miami against HDR, first filed in 2022. Because gross negligence was ruled out by the judge, HDR would not be liable for more than the $10 million limit in its project-specific professional liability policy with Berkley Assurance Co. HDR said in a statement that the legal matters "were resolved by mutual agreement more than a year ago and are considered closed.…