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15 Tips For Starting Your Own Roof and Guttering Business

Construction Marketing

Setting up your office and setting a storage area at home will do while you’re beginning. Insurance, liability, and workers’ compensation . 9) Legality and Taxes. You can also hire a lawyer to help you out with other legal requirements such as service agreements. 2) Startup and ongoing expenses. Labor costs.

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No Longer in the Dark: A Primer on the Distinction between Delay and Disruption Damages in a Construction Dispute

Best Practices Construction Law

While the legal issue focused on the County’s right rely on the defense of sovereign immunity, the Contractor’s (and it expert’s) characterization of the damages was critical to the outcome of the case. The contract allowed for “delay damages” if the Contractor’s request for those damages “is determined to be compensable.”.

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Email Sent After Final Payment Held Insufficient to Preserve Timeliness of Claim Against Government

Best Practices Construction Law

Final payment does not bar a claim where the contracting officer knows that the contractor is asserting a right to additional compensation, even though a formal claim has not been filed. Based upon the record, the Board concluded that the contractor never presented, let alone formulated, a claim for extended home office overhead.

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WorkSafeBC Releases Occupational Safety Fine Report

Safety Services Company

million against employers for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation and the Workers Compensation Act. for chronic repeated violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation and Workers Compensation Act , for exposing workers to asbestos. In 2012, WorkSafeBC imposed 260 penalties, totaling $2.9

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Louisiana Contractors & State Licensing – Home Improvement

Construction Law Monitor

The application needs to include the following information in addition to proof of workers compensation insurance: (B)(1) The applicant’s name, home address, business address, and social security number. (2) It will give you protections and keep you legal. See La R.S. The homeowner can rip you off with very little recourse.

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Estimating- The New Normal

Chianelli Estimating

Most likely none of the cost factors now required will have been budgeted for on previously awarded contracts and the list is formable; controlled access to sites, material delivery disruptions, temperature checks, two week quarantine, reduced labor force – both in the field and in the office, material shortages. Office Utilities.

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

Construction Lawyer

He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular construction law column for The Construction Specifier. A Legally Inclined Weblog. >. So dont say we didnt warn you.