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PRESERVING YOUR RIGHTS TO SECURE PAYMENT ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS (WITH EXAMPLES)

Posted on 18 March, 2017
All participants across the construction industry should understand what efforts they should take to maximize and collateralize payment.  No one wants to work for free and, certainly, no one in the construction industry wants to work without ensuring there is some mechanism to recover payment...

EBOOK: MILLER ACT PAYMENT BOND FUNDAMENTALS

Posted on 15 March, 2017
I finally did it!  I wrote an ebook on the fundamentals of Miller Act payment bonds.  A nuts and bolts approach focusing on the practical application of Miller Act payment bonds.  It is...

“IS THE DEFECTIVE WORK COVERED BY INSURANCE?”

Posted on 12 March, 2017
I have been asked this question quite a bit from owners, in particular:  “The contractor committed defective work, but it has insurance.  Doesn’t the insurance cover this defective work?”    Ugh, NO!    There is this misconception that

MILLER ACT AND “PUBLIC WORK OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT”

Posted on 28 February, 2017
The Miller Act applies to the “construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the Federal Government.”  40 U.S.C. s. 3131.      A recent opinion out of the Northern District of Oklahoma sheds light on...

QUICK NOTE: IMPORTANCE OF EQUIPMENT FLOATER INSURANCE

Posted on 23 February, 2017
A recent case out of New York held that damage to a tower crane from a storm during construction is excluded from a builder’s risk policy because a tower crane is a machine that fits...