by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
by Michael C. Loulakis Record Steel and Construction v. United States , 62 Fed. Cl. 508 (2004), provides an excellent example of the evolution of design-build caselaw. The dispute in this case involved whether a design-build contract required foundations to be...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Those of you who are interested in design-build have undoubtedly come across Design-Build Lessons Learned, an annual publication authored by Mike Loulakis, the president of the law firm of Wickwire Gavin and one of the country’s foremost authorities on design-build. ...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
By: Katz & Stone When claiming entitlement to cost for constructive acceleration, contractors must prove that any time extensions received were inadequate to remedy their excusable delays. Time extensions do not have to be granted immediately, and the mere...
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...
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