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Safety First, Bidding Next: How Safety & Compliance Wins Contracts

Safety Services Company

With growing scrutiny on job site dangers and liability concerns, prioritizing safety is crucial in sustaining a competitive edge. A Good Safety Record Presents You as a Lower Risk Liability Contractors frequently operate in risky and hazardous environments. demonstrates significantly lower past claims than the industry average.

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Virtue signallers beware

Construction Law

The next thing you might be contacting your lawyer about could be your potentially over-inflated sustainability claims. Virtue signalling by ‘greenwashing’ could end up being more expensive than taking the measures you have wrongly claimed to. Those projects failing to meet these criteria may struggle to access financing.

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Suing But Not Because it was Not a Green Building

Green Building Law Update

With the maturation of the green building industrial complex it has become clear there is no more or additional liability associated with constructing a green building versus a similar non green structure. As with the vast majority of claims involving a green building that this law firm reviews (.

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Litigation over First LEED Platinum Building Comes to an End

Green Building Law Update

to apply the PolyClear 2000 treatment, and Permapost provided certificates to Weyerhaeuser verifying that the treatment had occurred. Substantively the case suggests there is no more liability arising from green building versus other construction, but that the liability is different. a then new, LEED low emitting material).

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Litigation over First LEED Platinum Building Comes to an End

Green Building Law Update

to apply the PolyClear 2000 treatment, and Permapost provided certificates to Weyerhaeuser verifying that the treatment had occurred. Substantively the case suggests there is no more liability arising from green building versus other construction, but that the liability is different. a then new, LEED low emitting material).

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Which Insurance Carrier Is Responsible for Damages on a Construction Project? Depends.

Best Practices Construction Law

general liability, builder’s risk, workers’ compensation, professional liability) over different periods of time, there may be a dispute as to which carrier covers the loss. Ultimately, the court concluded that Insurance Company #2 had the duty to defend the claim. In a recent case, Cincinnati Insurance Co.

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Companies are Preparing for ESG Disclosure Rules

Green Building Law Update

There is legal risk associated with ESG disclosures and I have assisted companies for years in mitigating their liability while still being responsive to the trend of investor demands for these disclosures. yes, obviously pre Biden Administration) that the SEC was scrutinizing whether ESG claims “are at odds with reality.” Recent U.S.