The Goldman household’s Solil Management and a Harlem church have been drawn right into a legal dispute between the late developer Brandon Miller and an insurance coverage firm.
The dispute stems from an indemnity settlement that Miller allegedly signed on behalf of Solil and Better Emanuel Baptist Church with out their information. Miller was listed because the signatory on the 2018 settlement, through which his firm, Actual Property Equities Company (REEC), obtained a mechanic’s lien bond for its ill-fated Harlem life sciences constructing at 2226 Third Avenue.
The doc lists a number of entities as accountable for backing the bond, together with Solil’s 313-315 West a hundred and twenty fifth Avenue LLC and 325 East 118th Avenue Holdings LLC, which is owned by the church. Miller’s title seems beneath a signature on the doc, which identifies him as a “member” of each entities.
Westchester Fireplace Insurance coverage Firm, a subsidiary of insurance coverage big Chubb, is suing Miller’s property, his widow Candice, REEC West a hundred and twenty fifth Avenue, REEC, the church and Solil to recuperate $150,000 paid to settle a building dispute, plus greater than $100,000 in authorized charges.
However Solil and the church have challenged the settlement, arguing that Miller was not affiliated with both one and had no authority to signal on their behalf.
“The person whose purported signature seems on the indemnity settlement” on behalf of Solil “was not ever a member of or affiliated with (Solil) or approved to bind the answering defendant to any contract or contractual obligation,” a latest court docket submitting states.
In court docket papers, Solil argues that the settlement was executed with “reckless disregard” for whether or not the signatory was approved to symbolize the entity, rendering it “void and unenforceable.” Solil and the church are additionally asking a decide to dismiss the claims in opposition to them.
REEC as soon as held the bottom leases on each properties. The corporate took over the leasehold at 313-315 West a hundred and twenty fifth Avenue in 2015 however misplaced it to foreclosures a number of years later. Solil owns the underlying land. At 325 East 118th Avenue, REEC signed a floor lease in March 2018, in accordance with property information. The church, which owns the land, seems to have since moved on from the association.
Attorneys for the church, Solil and Westchester Fireplace Insurance coverage Firm didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
The dispute provides one other layer to the legal and financial fallout from Miller’s actual property enterprise, which was tangled in debt and lawsuits when he died by suicide in July 2024.
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