by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | indemnification clause, Newsletter Article
By: Dion N. Cominos, Esq. Under an Assembly Bill recently signed into law by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Type I” subcontractor indemnity agreements in favor of builders entered into after January 1, 2006 will no longer be enforceable in the context of...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
In an insurance case arising out a church fire, a state supreme court held that Reliance National, and other insurance carriers of the church, were not entitled to subrogate against the contractor whose employee allegedly caused the fire, because a waiver of...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
by Matt Lutz, FMI Corporation Risk identification and the subsequent management or mitigation of these risks has become a focal point for leading construction exectuives around the world. As owners seek to minimize construction risk exposure via onerous contractual...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
For many years, contractors and construction lawyers in California understood that a bright line existed regarding potential liability for construction defects – no liability 10 years after substantial completion of the project. The recent decision by the California...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
For contractors performing work on existing federal contracts in affected areas, assessing the impact of the hurricane on their contracts raises a number of issues and concerns. Federal construction and supply contracts typically provide for a non-compensable time...
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