Joshua Tumen and John Juhoon Oh | Property Insurance Law Observer In 453 Laurel Rd Holdings, LLC v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., No. 6:25-cv-00094-REW-HAI, 2026 WL 3230469 (E.D. Ky. Oct. 28, 2026), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated an appraisal award because the appraisers and umpire valued… Continue reading Court Vacates Appraisal Award Exceeding Agreed Scope
Contractors Beware: Your One-Year Warranty May Not Be the End of Your Liability
Kaci M. Claborn and J. Daniel Weidner | Koley Jessen In the construction industry, many contracts include a one-year warranty, commonly called a “call-back” or correction period. The warranty provision generally states that the contractor warrants that the materials it furnishes will be of new and good quality, will conform to the requirements of the… Continue reading Contractors Beware: Your One-Year Warranty May Not Be the End of Your Liability
Settlement Is Not the Decision: What Process Design Owes the Parties
Paul Sills | American Arbitration Association It is quarter past nine in the evening. The general counsel arrived at eight that morning. She has eaten twice from the same buffet. She has just come off a ninety-minute call to a chief executive in another time zone who was asleep when it started. The mediator is… Continue reading Settlement Is Not the Decision: What Process Design Owes the Parties
SBA Plans Stricter Limitations-on-Subcontracting For Set-Aside Contracts – Construction Contractors Should Take Particular Note
Jeffrey Gallant, Colleen Jarrott, Ronald Sullivan, Bret Wacker and J. Chris White | Clark Hill The U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) has announced plans to revise the limitations-on-subcontracting rules governing covered small-business set-aside and sole-source awards in response to a September 30, 2026, SBA Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) report. This report looked into federal-wide… Continue reading SBA Plans Stricter Limitations-on-Subcontracting For Set-Aside Contracts – Construction Contractors Should Take Particular Note
The Drawing Changed. Did You Catch It? A Hard Lesson for Contractors About Revised Plans
Matthew DeVries | Best Practices Construction Law Every contractor has seen it. A revised drawing hits your inbox. You open the sheet, look for the clouds, figure out what changed, and move on. But what if something changed outside the cloud? That seemingly simple question became a very expensive problem in Young Contracting/SE, Inc. v.… Continue reading The Drawing Changed. Did You Catch It? A Hard Lesson for Contractors About Revised Plans