{"id":904104,"date":"2025-03-18T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=904104"},"modified":"2025-03-18T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:13:19","slug":"delay-claims-and-burden-of-proof-substantiating-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/delay-claims-and-burden-of-proof-substantiating-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"..More on Delay Claims and the Burden of Proof Substantiating Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Adelstein | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaconstructionlegalupdates.com\/more-on-delay-claims-and-the-burden-of-proof-substantiating-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Florida Construction Legal Updates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about some more on\u00a0<strong>DELAY claims<\/strong>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/do-no-damage-for-delay-clauses-bar-acceleration-claims\/\">burden of proof substantiating delay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delay claims can no doubt be complex \u2013 factually and legally. They warrant expert opinions further bolstered by fact witness testimony from the folks that lived the details and issues. If you need assistance with a delay claim, make sure you have the right representation to best position the claim, the arguments, and the burden of proof to substantiate the claim. Otherwise, you\u2019ll be navigating murky waters in dealing with issues and facts that rarely will be one-sided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claims relating to delay can be a driving item on construction projects with back-and-forth positions \/ arguments and differing expert opinions. From the contractor\u2019s perspective, to recoup time and money, the delay needs to be&nbsp;<strong><u>excusable and compensable<\/u><\/strong>. Below is a snippet from the Court of Federal Claims explaining the contractor\u2019s burden in proving an excusable, compensable delay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c[N]ot all&nbsp;delays&nbsp;are excusable, and furthermore, not all excusable&nbsp;delays&nbsp;are compensable.\u201d&nbsp;<u>Compensable&nbsp;<\/u><u>delay<\/u>&nbsp;is&nbsp;delay&nbsp;where \u201cthe government [is] the sole proximate cause of the contractor\u2019s additional loss, and the contractor would not have been&nbsp;delayed&nbsp;for any other reason during that period.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Sequential&nbsp;<\/u><u>delay<\/u>&nbsp;is defined as&nbsp;delay&nbsp;\u201cwhere one party and then the other cause different&nbsp;delays&nbsp;<em>seriatim<\/em>&nbsp;or intermittently.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cIf a period of&nbsp;delay&nbsp;can be attributed&nbsp;<u>simultaneously<\/u>&nbsp;to the actions of both the [g]overnment and the contractor, there are said to be concurrent&nbsp;delays, and the result is an excusable but not a compensable&nbsp;delay.\u201d&nbsp; Plaintiff \u201chas the burden of establishing by a preponderance of the evidence\u201d the existence of any excusable&nbsp;delay, compensable or otherwise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A&nbsp;<u>compensable&nbsp;<\/u><u>delay<\/u><u>&nbsp;analysis<\/u>&nbsp;requires the Court to look at each specific instance of excusable&nbsp;delay&nbsp;plaintiff is entitled to and determine if the government is \u201cthe sole proximate cause of [plaintiff]\u2019s additional loss, and the contractor would not have been&nbsp;delayed&nbsp;for any other reason during that period.\u201d&nbsp; Consequently, the Court cannot decide whether plaintiff is entitled to any compensable&nbsp;delay&nbsp;until it decides if plaintiff is entitled to excusable&nbsp;delay.&nbsp; Further, the government\u2019s blanket assertion that any excusable&nbsp;delay&nbsp;caused by weather, logs, clay, or debris was concurrent with plaintiff\u2019s&nbsp;delayed&nbsp;start, defective equipment, project planning, and personnel management is unavailing because it does not assess each specific instance of excusable&nbsp;delay&nbsp;to which plaintiff is entitled.&nbsp; (\u201c[I]n the event of concurrent&nbsp;delays, the contractor \u2018can attempt to prove the portion of the&nbsp;delay&nbsp;attributable to the government[ ] that was separate and apart from the contractor\u2019s&nbsp;delay.\u2019 \u201d). The government correctly states, and plaintiff acknowledges, plaintiff \u201chas the burden of establishing by a preponderance of the evidence\u201d the existence of any excusable&nbsp;delay, compensable or otherwise.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Marine Industrial Construction, LLC v. U.S<\/em>., 158 Fed.Cl. 158, 207 (Fed.Cl. 2022) (internal citations omitted).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When one of your cases is in need of a construction expert, estimates, insurance appraisal or umpire services in defect or insurance disputes &#8211; please call Advise &amp; Consult, Inc. at 888.684.8305, or email <a href=\"mailto:experts@adviseandconsult.net\">experts@adviseandconsult.net<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Adelstein | Florida Construction Legal Updates How about some more on\u00a0DELAY claims\u00a0and the burden of proof substantiating delay. Delay claims can no doubt be complex \u2013 factually and legally. They warrant expert opinions further bolstered by fact witness testimony from the folks that lived the details and issues. If you need assistance with a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/delay-claims-and-burden-of-proof-substantiating-delay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">..More on Delay Claims and the Burden of Proof Substantiating Delay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10721],"tags":[9895,421,9831,22],"class_list":["post-904104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","tag-advise-consult","tag-burden-of-proof","tag-delay-claims","tag-insurance","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>..More on Delay Claims and the Burden of Proof Substantiating Delay - Advise &amp; 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