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 | Jan 3, 2012 | indemnification clause, Newsletter Article
Where a firm (Parsons Infrastructure) entered into a contract to design and construct a soda ash processing plant for Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp (KM) and agreed to provide KM with a defense and indemnity against losses arising out of negligent performance of its work, ...
by Kent Holland | Feb 9, 2011 | Newsletter Article
A California Court of Appeals held earlier this month that incident reports are protected by the attorney-client privilege when certain criteria are met. Scripps Health v. Superior Court (Reynolds), 2003 D.A.R. 6059 (filed June 6, 2003) This case is particularly...
by Kent Holland | Feb 7, 2011 | Newsletter Article
When two workers that were trapped and drowned in a collapse trench, a general contractor and its president were indicted by a Grand Jury for manslaughter, negligent homicide and reckless endangerment. The facts as described by the court are these: The general...
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...
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