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7 Things Contractors Need to Know About Retainage

Fieldwire

For many construction businesses, the retainage payment accounts for their entire profit margin on the project. Retainage is up for negotiation Retainage is not set in stone. It is governed by the contract, which means it’s part of the agreement between two parties. This can be used in a couple of different ways.

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Those items proved valuable resources for conducting his new duties—so valuable that his previous employer sued for violation of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and for illegal use of trade secrets. Resolving those competing interests can hit profits hard. Confidentiality agreements. What Is a Restrictive Covenant?

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All About Tendering | What Is Tendering | What Is a Tender in Construction | Tendering Meaning in Construction

CivilJungle

Based on the language in the offer suggestion, the construction business creates tender offers for registration, and if it receives an official administrator agreement will make. Mainly it is survey evidence proof and legal effects. Tenders are of several kinds, counting open tender, selective, serial tender, and negotiated tender.

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Assignment of Benefits for Contractors: Pros & Cons of Accepting an AOB

Levelset

An assignment of benefits , or AOB, is an agreement to transfer insurance claim rights to a third party. It gives the assignee authority to file and negotiate a claim directly with the insurance company, without involvement from the property owner. The AOB agreements need to be in writing. What is an assignment of benefits?

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A Contractor’s Guide to Homeowner’s Insurance: Is Your Project Covered?

Levelset

Insuring agreement. Regardless of the policy, the Insuring Agreement is the section that will outline all the insurance company’s responsibilities after a weather event or other covered peril causes damage to a roof or exterior siding, as examples. The Insuring Agreement will give you a detailed list of covered perils.

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A Contractor’s Guide to Homeowner’s Insurance: Is Your Project Covered?

Levelset

Insuring agreement. Regardless of the policy, the Insuring Agreement is the section that will outline all the insurance company’s responsibilities after a weather event or other covered peril causes damage to a roof or exterior siding, as examples. The Insuring Agreement will give you a detailed list of covered perils.

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Arbitration is Why There is So Little Litigation in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

Legal scholars can have at it. LEED Certification Agreement has a mandatory arbitration provision. But make no mistake claims are being paid including profits being disgorged by designers, construction companies and materialmen. The Supreme Court, in American Express v. Even the Green Business Certification Inc.

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