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Inside the Baltimore Bridge Collapse & Potential Legal Liabilities

Construction Business Owner

Inside the Baltimore Bridge Collapse & Potential Legal Liabilities ccapoccia Tue, 04/16/2024 - 11:55 In the early hours of March 26, 2024, a cargo ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The workers were on-site for road repairs when the ship struck, and the collision occurred too quickly for them to clear the area.

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How Dash Cams Help Your Construction Company

Construction Business Owner

Read that again, because it’s a game changer that should cause construction companies to seriously consider a dual-facing (both driver- and road-facing) dash cam system. In a recent J.

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Legal delays lead to £24 million road cost rise

Construction Law

Legal challenges to the £950 million A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet road scheme have let to Skanska being paid an additional £24M by National Highways. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Judicial review sought for key levelling-up road project

Construction Law

Campaigners Transport Action Network (TAN) have launched a legal challenge to the granting of a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the £1.5 billion A66 Northern Trans-Pennine road scheme. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Overcoming Regulatory Barriers When Bidding in a New State

Viewpoint Construction Technology

So how can contractors overcome the regulatory hurdles on the road to bidding in a new jurisdiction? Disclaimer: Harbor Compliance is not an accounting or law firm and does not provide tax, financial, or legal advice. With the stakes that high, it doesn’t pay to gamble with state licenses. Compliance in the Cloud.

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Google Scholar Provides Outstanding Preliminary Legal Research

Best Practices Construction Law

joined the legal research playing field with Westlaw, LEXIS, FindLaw and all the other law-related databases. A couple of years ago I worked on a case for a road builder which had a claim against the Tennessee Department of Transportation. Is that the only legal research an inquiring mind should do? Let's to a quick test.

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Minnesota Considers Constitutional Amendment to Fund Road Construction

Construction Equipment

Minnesota legislators are considering if detouring certain sales tax dollars into a constitutionally mandate separate fund could solve the state's road and transportation funding needs.