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15 Tips For Starting Your Own Roof and Guttering Business

Construction Marketing

Insurance, liability, and workers’ compensation . Limited liability company (LLC) . Protect your business by securing permits and licenses. You can also hire a lawyer to help you out with other legal requirements such as service agreements. However, you’ll later require a bigger location for your business.

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GHG, SHG, SEC Regulations – Facilities Regs and Reporting Changes Coming Soon

Job Order Contracting

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal to require that public companies disclose climate-related information. The proposed rules contain a “safe harbor” for liability for Scope 3 emissions disclosure. Take back agreements. ISO14064 Boundaries. Organizational. Equity share. Operational. Energy indirect emissions.

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Obtaining the Proper Bonding for Government Jobs

Construction Business Owner

In a way, a surety bond is like insurance; it is a three-part agreement between the contractor, the organization requiring the bond (e.g. This agreement ensures that a contractor will perform all of the duties they agreed to in the bid they placed, abiding by the terms of that government-sanctioned project. General Management.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

And there is some form of privacy law in at least 48 states (but not Alabama and South Dakota), including by way of example the California’s groundbreaking 2003 Data Security Breach Reporting Law , but most of those are reactive, that is most laws in the U.S. And the power utilities protect themselves from liability related to data.

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What Contractors Need to Know About Surety Bonds

Construction Marketing

If the principal’s bond application is approved, the surety company will require the principal to sign an indemnity agreement before it will issue the bond. The indemnity agreement provides that the principal will hold the surety harmless if a claim is filed against the bond. Surety bonds do not protect you against liability.

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Pennsylvania Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act: What Residential Contractors Need to Know

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The contract should constitute the entire agreement between the parties, including attached copies of any required notices. If, however, the agreement is a time and materials contract , a further breakdown is required. ” It’s a way to cancel the agreement with no harm and or penalties to either party.

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#91:  Liability Insurance for a Subcontractor's Defective Work

NH Construction Law

“May unintentionally faulty subcontractor work that damages an insured’s work product constitute an ‘accident’ under a commercial general liability insurance policy?” But what makes Skanska interesting is that the court took pains to distance itself from an earlier Michigan decision, Hawkeye-Security Ins.