by Kent Holland | Dec 31, 2010 | Newsletter Article
The California Court of Appeals issued an important opinion regarding UDC v CH2M Hill affecting construction professionals. The decision is the first of its kind to interpret a design professional’s duty to defend under an indemnity agreement in light of the...
by Kent Holland | Mar 20, 2012 | Newsletter Article
An employee of an HVAC subcontractor, while working on a house, fell to his death from the third floor to the basement through an open stairwell. The framing of the house had been completed three weeks earlier by the framing contractor who left an unprotected hole in...
by Kent Holland | Mar 11, 2013 | Newsletter Article
Where employees were injured when a concrete I-Beam feel from a bridge, their employer destroyed the beam the following day. The Illinois Supreme Court found there was no evidence to support the existence of a duty to preserve the I-beam because (1) there was no...
by Kent Holland | Jan 13, 2016 | Newsletter Article
Kent Holland, J.D. ConstructionRisk, LLC The United States District Court for the Northern District of California held that an engineer who prepares documents that contractors will rely on when preparing their bids owes a duty of care to the contractors, and thus can...
by Kent Holland | Jun 11, 2014 | Newsletter Article
If you are a construction attorney, or an attorney interested in learning more about construction project and practice issues, and have not already joined the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, I encourage you do to do. Three times a year, hundreds of...
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