Katherine Dempsey | White and Williams In Allstate Veh. & Prop. Ins. Co. v. Glitz Constr. Corp., 2023 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1180, 2023 NY Slip Op 01171, the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department (Appellate Court), considered whether a contractor could be found liable for its subcontractor’s alleged negligence in causing injury… Continue reading Someone Who Hires an Independent Contractor May Still Be Liable, But Not in This Case
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Caution to GCs! An Exception to Privette Can Leave You Open to Liability
Dolores Montoya | Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara In a recent important decision, Brown v. Beach House Design & Development the Court of Appeal addressed an issue that frequently arises under the Privette doctrine—the extent to which a general contractor can be held liable for injuries to a subcontractor’s employee. The injuries in Brown arose when a window casing subcontractor’s… Continue reading Caution to GCs! An Exception to Privette Can Leave You Open to Liability
Who’s Responsible?
The CLM “Go back to work.” Those words from the general contractor precipitated the subcontractor employee’s injury. Still, the general contractor was not liable. In a win for the construction industry, the Court of Appeal ruled in August 2022 that the Privette Doctrine barred subcontractor employees’ injury claims against general contractors. The Privette Doctrine is great for property owners,… Continue reading Who’s Responsible?
Don’t Forget The Statutory Notice Of Claim
Randy J. Heller | Gallet Dreyer & Berkey We don’t usually write about personal injury matters. But sadly, personal injury accidents happen on construction projects. And when an accident occurs on a project owned by a public body, a Notice of Claim must be filed before one can bring suit against the public owner (e.g.,… Continue reading Don’t Forget The Statutory Notice Of Claim
A Trivial Case
Garret Murai | California Construction Law Blog Construction defect cases leading to physical injury are rarely trivial, at least in the eyes of the injured party, but alas sometimes they are as the next case, Nunez v. City of Redondo Beach, 81 Cal.App.5th 749 (2022), demonstrates. The Nunez Case Monica Nunez, Vice President of Finance and… Continue reading A Trivial Case