I just wanted to thank Mark Buckshon (@CMIblog) of the Construction Marketing Ideas blog for the kind nomination to his 2012 Best Construction Blog list. I am honored to be a part of the list and hope that my loyal readers will come out an vote for Construction Law Musings (you can vote at the […]
Read Your Construction Contract Arbitration Clauses Carefully
In May of last year, we discussed an opinion in U.S. ex rel. Thyssenkrupp Safway Inc. v. Tessa Structures LLC. If you recall, this case involves a three way payment dispute between a supplier, Thyssenkrupp, a subcontractor, Tessa Structures, and a general contractor, Vista Contracting. As discussed in the prior post, Thyssenkrupp did not get […]
Estimating Benchmarks in 2012
For this mid-week Guest Post Friday post, we welcome Houston Neal. Houston is the Director of Marketing at Software Advice, a website that presents reviews and comparisons of construction software. Houston joined the company in 2007, just shortly after it was started. He spends most of his day getting the word out about Software Advice’s […]
Economic Loss Rule not Absolute in Construction
Musings takes a step off of the green construction and marketing train to discuss an interesting decision from the City of Richmond, Virginia Circuit Court. As Musings has discussed on several occasions, the economic loss rule in Virginia states that where a loss occurs that relates in any way to a contract, the injured party […]
The Life Of A Mechanics Lien Claim: Preserve, Perfect, Enforce
For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome back a good friend and fellow construction attorney, Scott Wolfe Jr. Scott is a construction attorney who practices law through his firm Wolfe Law Group in California, Washington, Oregon and Louisiana. He is also the founder of Zlien, a nationwide preliminary notice and mechanic’s lien filing service. […]