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5 Tips to Finding a Commercial Roofing Contractor

Construction Marketing

You should instead find a commercial roofing contractor. However, finding the right commercial roofing contractor can be a piece of cake when you know what to look for when hiring such professionals. Below is a checklist that should guide you when hiring a commercial roofing expert. Insist on License of Registration.

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9 Types of Insurance You Need to Protect Your Contractor Business

Construction Marketing

General Liability Insurance. This type of coverage will protect your company from various liabilities , including injury claims, and cover medical expenses. General liability also protects businesses if they cause damage to a customer’s property or if any product installations go awry, like faulty plumbing that causes leaking.

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An Alarming Expansion of Architect Liability?

Construction Dive

By Bruce Jervis Design professionals have long sought to control their liability exposure. The argument has been that their potential liability is disproportionate to the compensation they receive and the role they play on a construction project. They have received a sympathetic hearing in some quarters.

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Phase l Assessments for Tenants are the Hottest Environmental Issue in 2020

Green Building Law Update

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA, commonly referred to as Superfund), 42 U.S.C. provides an important liability protection, including from cleanup costs, for parties who qualify as bona fide prospective purchasers (BFPPs). 9601 et seq., 9601 et seq.,

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I Just Read my 1000th Phase I Environmental Site Assessment this Year

Green Building Law Update

The majority of our work in reviewing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments is for lenders across the country, much of that undertaken by a non law subsidiary of this law firm, but the fastest growing segment in this space, by far, is Phase Is for commercial tenants. 9601 et seq., 9601 et seq.,

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New Insurance Case: S.D. Supreme Court Rules that There is No Commercial General Liability Coverage for Property Damage to Insured Contractor’s Own Work and Building Materials during Its Ongoing Operations

Construction Dive

2013), holding that the Care, Custody & Control, Performing Operations Exclusion, and Incorrectly Performed Work Exclusion eliminate commercial general liability (CGL) policy coverage for property damage to an insured contractor’s own work and stored building materials during its ongoing operations. 2d 402 (S.D.

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Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Green Building Law Update

million commercial and industrial real estate transactions in the United States each year, so you need to be aware of the revised standard expected to be issued later this year. Environmental Protection Agency as satisfying its All Appropriate Inquiry rule to obtain protections from liability under CERCLA, the federal Superfund law.

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