by Kent Holland | Jan 2, 2018 | Newsletter Article
A general contractor for home construction hired a subcontractor to perform trim work on a house, including installation of a guardrail in front of a sliding glass door that would have access to a potential future deck. The subcontractor used finish nails to attach...
by Kent Holland | Nov 15, 2017 | Newsletter Article
An employee of a general contractor was electrocuted while working alongside employees of a subcontractor to move sections of pipe culvert in a streambed. This apparently occurred because a crane being operated by the subcontractor contacted an electrical wire. His...
by Kent Holland | Sep 26, 2017 | Newsletter Article
On a design-build project where an architect held the prime contract under DBIA forms 530 and 535, it was liable for overall site safety – including that which it had by subcontract expressly delegated to its construction subcontractor. Because the language of the...
by Kent Holland | Mar 30, 2017 | Newsletter Article
By Kent Holland An employee of an independent contractor cannot generally recover damages from the one who hired the contractor for work-related injuries. One exception to this rule is where the hirer actually retained control of the work or otherwise caused or...
by Kent Holland | Dec 19, 2016 | Newsletter Article
A man who fell from a retaining wall at a streetscape project being built for a city filed suit against the city as well as the architect (BL Companies, Inc.) for the project. The legal theory against the architect was that he had created a public nuisance by failing...
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