I would say that due to this publicity alone bob perry and his company has lost more than 800k in business.

As a business owner there is an old rule of thumb.

Make a customer happy and you're lucky if they tell one friend positive things about your business.
Make a customer mad and they'll stop strangers on the street to bad mouth your business.
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Ironic, isn't it, that Perry spends all his time trying to deny people access to the courts and force them into having to pay for trials through processes like arbitration. But then, when he looses in arbitration, he gets his friendly all-Republican Supreme Court (all bought and paid for, of course) to disallow the results of the arbitration and wants to go where? To get a jury trial. The same thing he's so eager to deny to others.

The big corporations, insurance companies, and doctors hate the jury system until they need it. Then it's OK.

Clearly this is not the forum to discuss real facts but I'm sure that Mid-Continent was not thrilled with the Texas Supreme Court when they ruled on the Lamar v. Mid-Continent case
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I knew it was the republican's fault that these folks foundation failed! Or was it the democrats? Maybe it was the lawyers that run both parties AND the legal system. Wake up! While the Culls and Perry are fighting in court, only the lawyers are cashing in. Find out which politicians have the most support from the lawyers, and vote for his/her opposition.

I find it interesting....and disturbing how people can comment on this case without knowing the facts. First, how could pictures of the same house show both smooth and cracked walls, closed doors, windows shut tight(is that proper grammar? yes, its grammAr, not grammEr), broken foundation, roof heaving up? What is a broken foundation? Is that a term of art or an analytical determination? Same for "roof heaving up"? It boggles the mind. I won't comment on the case itself because the article doesn't really explain the details...details that would take a Philadelphia attorney to understand. What the article does seem to imply is that Perry Homes, Bob Perry, Rick Perry and by inference, builders and politicians are all corrupt and bad people looking to take advantage of everyone for their own evil ends. YAWN......Get over it. The problem is that we have become a nanny state and want everything form the govt and that business profits are an evil thing... Hows that "hope and change" thing working out for ya???
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When people bought into tort reform, they didn't know what they were really buying into. They listened to anecdotes, half-truths, and some blatant lies. After that, they let the homebuilders (and insurance carriers) loot them of most of their rights and protections. They never knew what was really being done or how it affects real people in real cases.

We also now have a Texas Supreme Court that simply doles out corporate welfare to its contributors and protects them when they do wrong. The current court had never thrown out an arbitration award on the grounds used in the Cull case, but when Uncle Bob (and every insurance carrier in the state) is in their Court, all the normal rules are set aside. There is no intellectual honestly in this allegedly conservative court.

What the Culls face is now the norm. Your rights when you buy a new home are weaker than they are when you buy a new pair of underwear. Seriously.
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We can hope that with some of his ill-gotten money that Perry will buy himself a pair of b**** and fix these people's house and any others he has put in the same position. History would tell us probably not with this kind of greedy scum-but we can always pray and hope.

-UMustbeRight-$800,000 was not too much way back when they WON that judgment. You have to factor in all the added costs due to this low life builder not making the house right before they had to take him to court. Not to mention their legal expenses. As time has gone on, these expenses, plus more legal fees have been added, since this scum bag won't pay the judgment against him. The one he is in violation of court order to pay. The one where he LOST-because he is a loser. Now, he has managed to purchase his way to getting a court to reverse the earlier ruling. That in no way makes him right. The correct amount due them now is many times more than the original $800,000. I hope they get everything that scum bag has or ever will have!!

Perry is a frivilous lawsuit defender. When he is dead, thousands will remember him as aq mean selfish noncharitable old man. Such a shame when he has an opportunity to do great good. Boss Tweed died with a better name than he will leave.