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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Home » Blogs. Department of Defense recently started using public clouds to support some of its infrastructure. This entry was posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 3:30 pm and is filed under John Chaney Blog. David Brown Blog. Fred Ode Blog. Jaron Stone Blog. John Chaney Blog. Categories.

Security

Security Construction Software Software

Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency as satisfying its All Appropriate Inquiry rule to obtain protections from liability under CERCLA, the federal Superfund law, something that is expected to happen by rulemaking at some point in 2022. Liability from old dry cleaners in retail sites that are beyond the boundaries of the “subject property” (.

Site

Site Liability Green United States

You Should Not Contract With Your Environmental Consultant

Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 13, 2017

The recommendation here is that in an environment of strict liability hazardous substance laws, from CERCLA and its state counterparts to local lead based paint codes, attorneys should be contracting with those undertaking hazardous substance investigations and the like. What a property owner does not know it cannot share.

Consulting

Consulting Contract Drafting Legal

Webinars

What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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#109: Liability Insurers' Duty to Defend

NH Construction Law

JANUARY 30, 2022

When a contractor or subcontractor is sued for defective workmanship, one of his first thoughts is likely to be whether the damages are covered by his liability insurance. ”) Parsing of claims and theories, and furnishing a defense to only the covered ones, is not allowed. Many professional liability policies have them.

Insurance

Insurance Liability Defense New Hampshire

constructionattorneyblog: Liability for green design

Construction Lawyer

MAY 20, 2009

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. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Liability for green design. Unlimited liability for designers and contractors.

Liability

Liability Green Design Illinois

constructionattorneyblog: Sole Proximate Cause Defense Reaffirmed

Construction Lawyer

APRIL 16, 2009

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. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Sole Proximate Cause Defense Reaffirmed. Unlimited liability for designers and contractors.

Defense

Defense Illinois AIA Chicago

Unlimited liability for designers and contractors

Construction Lawyer

MAY 30, 2012

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. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Unlimited liability for designers and contractors. Copyright Notice. Disclaimer.

Liability

Liability Contractors Design Illinois

constructionattorneyblog: Limitation of Liability in new AIA Document

Construction Lawyer

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

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. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Limitation of Liability in new AIA Document. Copyright Notice. Disclaimer. Here it is: § 8.1.3

Liability

Liability AIA Documentation Illinois

Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 3, 2017

But the largest owner of green buildings (also the owner of the most LEED certified buildings) the Department of Defense has largely taken itself out of this discussion with a waiver that provides, Department of Defense prohibits the sharing of metered data with private entities, such as USGBC. Others collect building data.

Green

Green Risk Claims Drafting

#90: Government Contractor Immunity

NH Construction Law

JUNE 30, 2020

A few years back I blogged (#24) on the Spearin doctrine, which holds that adherence to government-imposed design specifications absolves the contractor from contract liability to the government when the finished product fails to perform as intended. Spearin does not address tort liability to third parties injured by defective designs.

Contractors

Contractors Liability United States Defense

#96: Payment Bond Sureties and "Pay-if-Paid" Subcontracts

NH Construction Law

DECEMBER 19, 2020

It is often said that a payment bond surety may assert all of the contractual defenses to payment enjoyed by its principal. I promised elaboration on this question in an earlier blog (# 8). 2d 404 (1990), construing Florida law, held that general contractor’s “pay-if-paid” defense was not available to a surety.

Subcontracting

Subcontracting New Hampshire Liability Defense

DOD Announces CMMC 2.0; Cancels Rollout of CMMC 1.0

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On November 4, 2021, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced it is revamping the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The changes are intended to make the program more streamlined and flexible, which, in turn, will make it easier (and cheaper) for contractors to implement. did not allow for self-assessments.

Certification

Certification Defense Liability Contractors

Unintentional Construction Defects = Occurrence

Construction Lawyer

JUNE 8, 2005

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. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Unlimited liability for designers and contractors. Subscribe to this blogs feed.

Construction Business Owner Blogs

Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

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You Should Not Contract With Your Environmental Consultant

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#109: Liability Insurers' Duty to Defend

constructionattorneyblog: Liability for green design

constructionattorneyblog: Sole Proximate Cause Defense Reaffirmed

Unlimited liability for designers and contractors

constructionattorneyblog: Limitation of Liability in new AIA Document

Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

#90: Government Contractor Immunity

#96: Payment Bond Sureties and "Pay-if-Paid" Subcontracts

DOD Announces CMMC 2.0; Cancels Rollout of CMMC 1.0

Unintentional Construction Defects = Occurrence

constructionattorneyblog: Seventh Circuit Rules for Injured.

#73: Do Contractors Have a Right to Fix Their Own Defective Work?

CGL policy -- conflict of interest between builder and insurer

Happy New Year From DoD – The Proposed CMMC Rule Is Here

A lesson for Architectural Firms: be careful how you pay employees

Supreme Court Nominee's Construction Decisions

Misclassification of professional employees can be dangerous

Florida Supreme Court follows Texas' Lamar Homes

Architect not liable when owner deviates from plans

constructionattorneyblog: Architect can't profit from wrongful conduct

constructionattorneyblog: Violation of "good engineering practice.

constructionattorneyblog: Arbitrations are not always private

constructionattorneyblog: Summary Judgment in Arbitration Upheld

constructionattorneyblog: Where owner does not pay undisputed.

constructionattorneyblog: New York allows contractual indemnification

Arbitration: Email Satisfies Writing Requirement

constructionattorneyblog: Termination of contract bars arbitration

Seventh Circuit examines "pay-if-paid" provision

constructionattorneyblog: Arbitrators award attorneys fees, contract.

constructionattorneyblog: Fiduciary Duty by Design Professionals?

constructionattorneyblog: No Interlocutory Appeal for Order to Mediate

Supreme Court rules that property can be taken for development

constructionattorneyblog: Kelo Song

constructionattorneyblog: Design Delegation

constructionattorneyblog: Mediator barred from testifying

constructionattorneyblog: Email -- Be careful what you write

Housing boom leads to copyright litigation increase

constructionattorneyblog: Waivers of liens: fraud

constructionattorneyblog: Justice Roberts finds for architect

constructionattorneyblog: New Lennar Opinion issued

constructionattorneyblog: LEED project managment software

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