by Kent Holland | Feb 7, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Risk to the project architect/engineer (A/E) can be caused when its client (the project owner) provides it insufficient, incomplete, or inaccurate information upon which it relies. Agreements between the A/E and its client should identify data and information to be...
by Kent Holland | Feb 8, 2011 | Newsletter Article
The Supreme Court of Washington held that the state’s six-year statute of repose did not violate the state constitution or the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution. Although it found itself compelled to enforce the statute to grant summary...
by Kent Holland | Jul 18, 2011 | Newsletter Article
April 2010 Certain cleanup costs may be covered as property damage under the exception to the pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability (CGL) policy when those costs constitute an appropriate and reasonable recovery that would have been obtained under...
by Kent Holland | Jan 3, 2012 | Newsletter Article
Where a contractor entered into a design-build contract with the U.S. Navy to build four buildings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and included a liquidated damages (LD) provision in the subcontract with its subcontractor, that LD provision was enforceable despite...
by Kent Holland | Mar 28, 2012 | Newsletter Article
Design-Build contractor (Maeda Pacific Corp) engaged a design firm to prepare a cost estimate that it used in preparing a bid to the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (“Navy”) for a water supply system at the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. After being...
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