By Albert B. Wolf Attorney at Law Recently, I have had a number of calls from general contractor clients complaining that one or more of their subcontractors have gone broke, leaving a bunch of unpaid suppliers. So what do they do? There are two possible solutions that might work if their owners have personal wealth… Continue reading Piercing the Corporate Veil: Help with Subcontractor Defaults
Category: Construction Contracts
Mistakes in Bids
By Albert B. Wolf – Wolf Slatkin & Madison P.C. One of the problems which frequently troubles the construction industry is bidding mistakes. The high incidence of mistaken bids is understood by industry people who know that the bidding process is often a frenzied last-minute accumulation of ideas and numbers quickly inserted into documents and… Continue reading Mistakes in Bids
Binding Bids
The construction industry operates by word-of-mouth to a great extent. Therefore the question: How binding is someone’s word. A typical example of verbal arrangements in the construction industry is subcontractor bidding. In typically last-minute preparations of their bids contractors and subcontractors rely on verbal prices from subcontractors and material/equipment suppliers. The contractor or subcontractor involved… Continue reading Binding Bids
Piercing the Corporate Veil to Collect on Award is Outside Scope of Arbitration Clause
Liz Kramer – January 19, 2012 The highest court in the District of Columbia has held that piercing the corporate veil is outside the scope of the arbitration clause in Giron v. Dodds, 2012 WL 18574 (D.C. Ct. App. 2012). But the case’s reasoning may extend to all cases in which a party must bring… Continue reading Piercing the Corporate Veil to Collect on Award is Outside Scope of Arbitration Clause
Utah Reverses Course on Apportioning Costs of Defense to Policyholders
Jason W. Crowell – January 25, 2012 A recent Utah Supreme Court decision could result in significant benefits to some policyholders in Utah’s construction industry. The case, Ohio Casualty Insurance Co. v. Unigard Insurance Co., 2012 UT 1, concerned a fight between two insurers about how to split the costs of defending a lawsuit brought against… Continue reading Utah Reverses Course on Apportioning Costs of Defense to Policyholders