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Preventing Your Insurance Claim From Becoming a Shakespearean Tragedy0
- Insurance, Legally Speaking
- June 24, 2025
By David Humphreys, Carson Law Group, PLLC Do your liability insurance premiums keep rising each year while your coverage dwindles? Despite the expensive premiums, have you experienced the disappointment of submitting a claim only to have your insurer deny coverage? If so, you’re certainly not alone in the construction world. Construction liability insurer have become
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- CONSTRUCTION, Insurance, Legally Speaking
- June 24, 2025
By David Humphreys, Carson Law Group, PLLC Do your liability insurance premiums keep rising each year while your coverage dwindles? Despite the expensive premiums, have you had the unfortunate experience of submitting a claim only to have your insurer deny any coverage? If so, you are certainly not alone in the construction world. Construction liability
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Change Orders, Lien Releases, and Claims, Oh My!0
- Best Practices, Contracts, FINANCE, LEGAL, Legally Speaking
- May 26, 2025
How (Sub)Contractors Can Ensure They Protect Their Rights to What They Are Owed By Michael Metz-Topodas, Saul Ewing LLP michael.metz-topodas@saul.com Despite construction project’s fundamental premise—contractors should receive payment for work properly performed—too many subcontractors have lived through too many horror stories about projects where that does not happen. Such scarring experiences can lead subcontractors to
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Change Orders Without Chaos: Simplify Your Process0
- Change Orders, Improving Productivity, Legally Speaking, Outlook & Trends, Risk Management
- May 26, 2025
By Eric Travers, Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter For subcontractors, change orders are a fact of life on construction projects. They can stem from design revisions, unforeseen conditions, impacts from general contractor (GC) decisions or interference from other trades, or owner-driven scope expansions. While change orders almost by definition mean more work—and potentially more revenue—they
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DEI Executive Order Overview0
- Legally Speaking, Risk Management
- April 22, 2025
By James Yand, Miller Nash LLP The January 21, 2025, Executive Order (EO), titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” was released and carries significant implications for federal contractors. Some of the implications for federal contractors include: Pay applications will now require certification that the general contractor does not operate DEI programs that violate
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Breaking Barriers: Women in Construction, Construction Law and Beyond0
- Best Practices, Legally Speaking, Outlook & Trends
- March 24, 2025
By Emily Martin, Saul Ewing In the long male-dominated construction industry, women have comprised only a small percentage of the trades workforce and leadership positions. Despite significant progress in broadening female representation in the industry, gender stereotypes, workplace discrimination, and legal barriers continue to hinder women’s full participation in the field. However, as more women
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