Don Gregory | Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter | June 4, 2015 The AIA A401 Subcontract allows an unpaid subcontractor to stop work until payment is received, “upon seven additional days’ written notice to the Contractor.” (§4.7.1). In a New York school construction dispute, the subcontractor was unpaid for three months and stopped work, but… Continue reading Sub can Suspend Work for Non-payment Without Notice
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Subcontractor Claims: What can you do once your General Contractor Files Bankruptcy?
Vicki R. Harding – Pepper Hamilton LLP – September 30, 2014 Branch Banking & Trust Co. v Construction Supervision Services, Inc. (In re Construction Supervision Services, Inc.), 753 F.3d 124 (4th Cir. 2014) – After a general contractor filed bankruptcy, several of its subcontractors requested clarification from the court about whether they could file notices post-petition to… Continue reading Subcontractor Claims: What can you do once your General Contractor Files Bankruptcy?
Contractor’s CGL Policy Doesn’t Cover Subcontractors’ Faulty Work: Appeals Court
Judy Greenwald – August 4, 2014 A construction company’s commercial general liability insurance policy does not provide coverage for faulty workmanship or subcontractor negligence, says an appeals court, in upholding a lower court ruling. Little Rock, Arkansas-based J-McDaniel Construction Co. Inc. purchased a CGL policy from a unit of the Great American Insurance Group, in… Continue reading Contractor’s CGL Policy Doesn’t Cover Subcontractors’ Faulty Work: Appeals Court
Minimize the Inherent Risk in “Scope Bidding” by Amending Your Form Subcontract
Eugene J. Heady – August 7, 2014 Subcontractors must exercise particular care if the project specifications are performance specifications or otherwise described by so-called “scope” criteria. A scope specification is one that describes the general scope of the project in terms of design, dimension, and major components of the work but does not list or… Continue reading Minimize the Inherent Risk in “Scope Bidding” by Amending Your Form Subcontract