Construction Risk
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contract Review Service
    • Personnel
  • Casenotes Report
    • Newsletters (2010-current)
    • Newsletters (1999-2010)
    • Newsletter Videos
    • Topics
  • Design and Construction Contracts
    • Reasonable Contract Clauses
    • Indemnification Clause
    • Limitation of Liability Clause
    • More Contract Topics
  • CLE Video
    • Contract Topics in 1 Minute
    • Contracts for Design Professionals
    • Design / Build Lessons Learned
    • Jobsite Safety Responsibility and Liability
    • Working on Purpose
  • CLE Written
    • Books
    • Webinars on Construction Risk Management
    • Setting & Achieving Goals
    • Design Professional Litigation 2016
    • Design Professional – Contract Review Workshop
    • Lessons Learned 2016
    • Design-Build Risk Management
    • Design Professional Litigation 2015
    • Jobsite Safety Responsibility Litigation Lessons Learned
    • Managing Design Professional Risks
  • Contact
Select Page

Subcontract Bidder Must Honor its Bid to GC (Promissory Estoppel)

by Kent Holland | Jan 19, 2017 | Newsletter Article

Where a general contractor (GC), Weitz Company , LLC, was awarded a contract to construct a nursing home and had based the heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) portion of its bid on a subcontract bid from an (HVAC) subcontractor, (H&S Plumbing and...

Subcontract Bidder Excused from Executing Contract with Prime Contractor

by Kent Holland | Jan 19, 2017 | Newsletter Article

Where a subcontractor submitted a glazing work bid to a general contractor to be considered and used in the general contractor’s bid to construct a new building for a college, it contained numerous terms and conditions that the general contractor (GC) rejected when it...

Economic Loss Rule Bars Concrete Supplier’s Claim Against Design Engineer

by Kent Holland | Sep 1, 2015 | Newsletter Article

Gail S. Kelley, J.D., PE ConstructionRisk, LLC In a dispute arising from defective concrete, State Ready Mix, Inc. v. Moffatt & Nichol, 232 Cal.App.4th 1227 (2015), the Appeals court found that the economic loss doctrine barred the concrete supplier’s claim...

Prime Contractor that Relied on Subcontract Bid Can Recover Damages Based on Promissory Estoppel

by Kent Holland | Apr 26, 2012 | Newsletter Article

Subcontract bidder is found liable to a prime contractor that relied upon its subcontract bid when preparing the successful prime contract bid.  The presumptive measure of damages applicable to promissory estoppel for the general contractor that relies upon a...

Search

Get the Newsletter

Subscribe to ConstructionRisk Report.

Subscribe

Connect

 LinkedIn YouTube RSS E-mail

Contract Guide for Design Professionals

Downloadable here

Recent Newsletters

ConstructionRisk Report (May 2025)
ConstructionRisk Report (April 2025)
ConstructionRisk Report (February 2025)
ConstructionRisk Report (January 2025)
ConstructionRisk Report (December 2024)

All Newsletters

  • Newsletters (2010-current)
  • Newsletters (1999-2010)

Risk Management Workshops

Cybersecurity: Protect Your Digital Assets & Online Presence

Ethics for Engineers

Design professional’s design duty to mitigate against extreme weather events

Risk Management of Code Compliance

Design Professional’s Design Duty to Mitigate Against Extreme Weather Events

QA/QC and Efficiency Tactics for Design Professionals

Lessons Learned 2017 Litigation

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Webinar

AIA B101 – Comparing 2007 & 2017 Owner-Architect Agreement

Design Professional – Contract Review Workshop

Design Professional Litigation – Lessons Learned 2016

Design-Build Risk Management

Design Professional Litigation 2015

Life Skills Workshop Slides

Setting & Achieving Goals

Contract Clauses – Papers and Articles

  • Indemnification Clause
  • Limitation of Liability Clause
  • Professional Standard of Care
  • Duty to Defend
  • Do Not Agree to Defend
  • Economic Loss Doctrine: A Good Defense
  • Establishing Time Limits for Filing Suit
  • Liquidated Damages Clause
  • Pay IF Paid or Pay WHEN Paid
  • Third Party Claims Against Professional Consultants

Construction Risk Management

Papers and Articles

Connect

 LinkedIn YouTube RSS E-mail

Links

  • Contact
  • Disclaimer for Website Use
  • Disclaimer for ConstructionRisk.com Newsletter
Copyright © 2025 Kent Holland. All Rights Reserved.