Matter of Lewis (Commissioner of Labor)

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• holding that the party wanting to enforce a contract has the burden of establishing that a valid, legally enforceable contract exists
• holding that provisions in certain estimates and invoices were insufficient to establish scope of work because there was no evidence they “were ever sent to the homeowners.”
• finding that Xactimate, a system that computes price in the home-repair context, was insufficient to establish price as two adjusters using it could come to different results
• rejecting argument that invoices were sufficient to establish the scope of work under the assignment contracts
• “The assignee of a chose in action acquires no greater rights than those of the assignor. . . .”

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