NH Construction Law
JANUARY 30, 2022
When a contractor or subcontractor is sued for defective workmanship, one of his first thoughts is likely to be whether the damages are covered by his liability insurance. ”) Parsing of claims and theories, and furnishing a defense to only the covered ones, is not allowed. Many professional liability policies have them.
Green Building Law Update
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Environmental Protection Agency as satisfying its All Appropriate Inquiry rule to obtain protections from liability under CERCLA, the federal Superfund law, something that is expected to happen by rulemaking at some point in 2022. Liability from old dry cleaners in retail sites that are beyond the boundaries of the “subject property” (.
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Construction Business Owner
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Home » Blogs. Department of Defense recently started using public clouds to support some of its infrastructure. This entry was posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 3:30 pm and is filed under John Chaney Blog. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog. John Chaney Blog. Categories.
NH Construction Law
JUNE 30, 2020
A few years back I blogged (#24) on the Spearin doctrine, which holds that adherence to government-imposed design specifications absolves the contractor from contract liability to the government when the finished product fails to perform as intended. Spearin does not address tort liability to third parties injured by defective designs.
NH Construction Law
DECEMBER 19, 2020
It is often said that a payment bond surety may assert all of the contractual defenses to payment enjoyed by its principal. I promised elaboration on this question in an earlier blog (# 8). 2d 404 (1990), construing Florida law, held that general contractor’s “pay-if-paid” defense was not available to a surety.
Federal Construction Contracting Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Department of Defense (DoD) published the much anticipated proposed rule for the revamped Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 For example, contractors subject to 252.204–7012 are already required to safeguard covered defense information in accordance with NIST SP 800-171. On December 26, 2023, the U.S.
Green Building Law Update
AUGUST 13, 2017
The recommendation here is that in an environment of strict liability hazardous substance laws, from CERCLA and its state counterparts to local lead based paint codes, attorneys should be contracting with those undertaking hazardous substance investigations and the like. What a property owner does not know it cannot share.
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