by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
By Allan H. Goodman If a dispute arises during construction of your project, do not proceed immediately to court! Your contract may require you to use alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques such as negotiation, mediation or arbitration to resolve your...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
By William F. Current Would you be surprised to learn that nearly a quarter of your workers were illegal drug users? It could happen. Consider what a California-based contractor discovered several years ago when it decided to prove that its workers were not druggies....
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
When a property purchaser discovered pollution on its newly acquired property it filed suit against the seller and the seller agreed to pay certain cleanup costs. But the seller subsequently reorganized its corporate structure and asserted the cleanup costs could not...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
by Allan H. Goodman Mediation is often used to resolve disputes arising during performance of construction contracts. Mediation is the non-binding, cooperative process in which parties to a dispute select a neutral third party, the mediator, to help them resolve their...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
By: Andrew B. Cohn, Esq. A very recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion (January 2005) has significantly changed Pennsylvania law, allowing a general contractor to directly sue an architect in negligence for additional construction costs caused by defective plans,...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Contractor that performed significantly greater unit quantities of paving work than anticipated was barred from an equitable adjustment because although it adequately documented the increased quantities and costs, and the project owner was aware of the same, the...
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