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Preventing and Resolving Construction Disputes: Types of Insurance in Construction Contracts

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Key Insurance Types for Construction - Construction projects often involve numerous risks, but various insurance policies are designed to mitigate these....more

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Alabama Supreme Court’s Recent Ruling on Indemnity Clauses Could Impact Construction Contracts: Key Drafting Considerations

Hark! A recent Alabama Supreme Court indemnity decision, Mobile Infirmary Association v. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, may require you to retrieve your drafting pen. Although not a case involving a construction...more

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Five of the Most Common Construction Disputes that Require Construction Lawyers

Construction projects are often complex endeavors involving multiple parties, intricate contracts, and significant investments. Despite meticulous planning, disputes can arise, posing challenges that require legal expertise...more

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Navigating Indemnity Disputes in an Ever-Changing Legal Environment

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In Short - The Background: Indemnity clauses are often included in contracts and can be extremely valuable, but they also raise many potential challenges to enforcing them, including state statutes, common law...more

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Builder's Risk - Measuring Delay

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Measuring delay from a loss under a builder’s risk insurance policy is perhaps the most complicated of all time element measures in the claims world. Setting aside the numerous complex issues of coverage, builders risk time...more

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Understanding Insurance Terms in Construction Contracts

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Construction contracts at all tiers usually include terms requiring certain types of insurance, and often contain related provisions about indemnity. This “boilerplate” can be important if a job goes south, so here’s a short...more

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Understanding Indemnification Clauses

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Introduction - Construction projects are risky. Contracts allocate risks between the parties. Indemnification clauses shift risk from one party to another. Many parties pay little attention to their contracts’...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Second Circuit Rules Indemnity Provision in Construction Contract Trumps "Other Insurance" Clause in Determining Priority of...

A recent decision by a panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit serves as a reminder that sometimes insurers and policyholders must look outside the insurance policies to determine the priority of...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Uniwest And Virginia’s Anti-Indemnification Statute: The Trap For The Unwary Should Be Closed

Uniwest And Virginia’s Anti-Indemnification Statute: The Trap For The Unwary Should Be Closed Source: Virginia Lawyer By James P. Bobotek 04.30.21 When preparing commercial contracts, parties strive for certainty to prevent...more

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The Intersection of Workers’ Compensation Immunity and Contractual Indemnity

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The workers’ compensation statute in many states provides that the workers’ compensation benefits received by an injured employee is the employee’s exclusive remedy. The benefits are paid based on a no-fault basis and the...more

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