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#130:  Secured Lenders' Rights to Construction Contract Payments

NH Construction Law

Can the recipient of the notice – in legal parlance, an “account debtor” – ignore the lender’s demand and continue to pay his contractor or subcontractor? Not unless he is prepared to pay twice! Any subsequent square-up was between lender and borrower, and not the account debtor’s concern.

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Subcontractor Insurance: 7 Policies Subs Should Consider for Their Business

Levelset

Medical expenses, property damage, and legal defense costs can grow quickly. An uninsured business would likely not have the financial resources to pay a large legal settlement. Since you’re likely familiar with personal auto insurance, commercial coverage works much the same way. Commercial umbrella insurance.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

Major Holdings, LLC , held a party could not assert a CERCLA defense because its Phase l report did not comply with the EPA rule. Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 sunset eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013 and the new E1527-21 was as of last week published and now available for use, but.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

is significant because it is widely suggested, just as a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is now standard practice in nearly every commercial real estate transaction in this country, that in the future the same will be true of a resilience assessment. The launch of RELi 2.0 The Green Business Certification Inc.’s

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constructionattorneyblog: Sole Proximate Cause Defense Reaffirmed

Construction Lawyer

His book, Legal Guide to AIA Documents, published by Aspen Publishing, is in its fifth edition. The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. A Legally Inclined Weblog. >.

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#109:  Liability Insurers' Duty to Defend

NH Construction Law

”) Parsing of claims and theories, and furnishing a defense to only the covered ones, is not allowed. Few commercial general liability policies do.) Withholding consent to a partial settlement solely to keep the insurer on the hook for defense costs might well be deemed unreasonable. City of Keene , 898 F.2d

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

is significant because it is widely suggested, just as a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is now standard practice in nearly every commercial real estate transaction in this country, that in the future the same will be true of a resilience assessment. The launch of RELi 2.0 The Green Business Certification Inc.’s