Originally posted 2019-11-18 09:11:09. Recently, I was talking with my friend Matt Hundley about a recent case he had in the Charlottesville, VA Circuit Court. It was a relatively straightforward (or so he and I would have thought) breach of contract matter involving a fixed price contract between his (and an associate of his Laura […]
Contract Construction Smarts: Helpful Provisions for Dispute Resolution
Originally posted 2010-11-19 10:58:33. For this week’s Guest Post Friday, Musings welcomes back Doug Reiser (@douglasreiser), though from new digs. Doug is a construction attorney, LEED AP and the principal at Reiser Legal LLC in Seattle, WA. His office provides effective construction counsel for businesses in the construction industry. He also runs the Builders Counsel […]
English v. RKK- There is Even More to the Story
Just when you thought that the litigation between W. C. English and RKK had no more to give (after all, there have been posts with wisdom from this case here, here, and here), it keeps on giving. A relatively recent opinion from this litigation involved, among other pre-trial motions, motions by English to exclude expert […]
Construction Delay Damages Can Be Tough to Show
Originally posted 2012-06-11 09:58:43. Recently, there have been a few cases in construction that have grabbed the headlines (or at least those at this and some other blogs). The biggest stir seems to be from the Jacobs Engineering case discussed so ably by Matt Bouchard in last Friday’s Guest Post. However, while the “headlines” were […]
More on Duty to Defend a Subcontractor
Originally posted 2015-02-13 09:11:48. While we don’t often discuss insurance coverage issues here at Construction Law Musings, occasionally a case comes up that makes the grade for a post. One such case was Erie Insurance Exchange v. Salvi, where the question of an “occurrence” that warranted coverage and defense under an insurance policy was at […]