We are in the same position, hanging onto searches we cannot get done until COTT is up in Alexander, Nash, Polk County, Alamance, NC to name a few in North Carolina.  Very upsetting as that means we wait longer to bill out and thus longer to get our money.  

Is there any sort of recourse as to this?  I imagine the State will be suing COTT for failure of specific performance, breach of contract, etc, but do you think they will suck it up and keep using COTT after this epic disaster? 

Is there any recourse for abstractors and attys as we are not able to do our job?  May be a silly question, but the litigation paralegal in me is alive and well still and trying to think hard for some legal remedy. 

 Please send me your ideas.  There has to be some legal remedy unless they classify it as an act of Terrorism, i.e., completely unforeseen.  This has been a disaster.  I don't remember since 1998 just not being able to do a search.  We also had water pipes breaking in Dekalb County, Georgia, and that was shut down for weeks as well.  

 Oconee County, SC is back up.  I do SC, NC and Georgia so it has affected me across the board.  I know Ohio has been heavily hit as well.  . .