Opinion ID: 1817319
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Heading: office overhead:

Text: Aetna acknowledges the general rule that home office overhead is a well-recognized item of damage for delay and an injured party is entitled to recover it. Guy James Construction Co. v. Trinity Industries Co., 644 F.2d 525 (5th Cir.1981); J.D. Hedin Construction Co. v. United States, 347 F.2d 235 (Ct.Cl. 1965); General Insurance Co. of America v. Hercules Construction Co., 385 F.2d 13 (8th Cir.1967). In the case sub judice Mr. Doleac testified that the overhead expense was calculated by taking the percentage of the overhead attributable to the project (5.9 percent) and applying it to the total overhead expense during the over-run period. Recovery for office overhead is allowed where the cost of overhead attributable to the particular job is applied prorata to the additional time required to complete the job as a result of the breach. See General Insurance Co. of America v. Hercules Construction Co., supra at 22; Luria Brothers, supra at 710-711; J.D. Hedin Construction Company, supra, at 259. This assignment of error is without merit.