Christina Phillips | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | August 6, 2019 Policy language varies when it comes to how and when an insured is required to give notice of a claim. Some policies have a definitive time frame setting forth when notice must be given, but others use terms such as “prompt,” “immediate” or… Continue reading Reasonableness of Notice…Is it Fact Specific?
Month: August 2019
Sweet News for Yum Yum Donuts: Lost Goodwill is Not an All or Nothing Proposition
Josh Cohen | California Construction Law Blog | August 12, 2019 Last month a California Court of Appeals clarified that a property owner facing eminent domain is only required to prove partial loss of goodwill, not total loss of goodwill, to be entitled to a trial on the amount of goodwill lost. Yum Yum Donuts operated a… Continue reading Sweet News for Yum Yum Donuts: Lost Goodwill is Not an All or Nothing Proposition
Beginning Construction Continuity Safe Harbor Extended for National Security Concerns; Proposed Legislation Would Go Further
Jeffrey G. Davis, Isaac L. Maron and Stephanie Wood | Mayer Brown | August 2, 2019 The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2019-43 (the “Notice”) on July 12, 2019, which provides that the period in which wind facility and energy property that have begun construction must be placed in service to be within the so-called… Continue reading Beginning Construction Continuity Safe Harbor Extended for National Security Concerns; Proposed Legislation Would Go Further
OSHA Takes Steps To Revise Silica Standard For Construction
Tressi Cordaro | Jackson Lewis | August 5, 2019 On July 29th OSHA submitted a draft Request for Information (RFI) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding Table 1 in OSHA’s construction standard for silica. If approved by OMB, OSHA intends to issue the RFI in the Federal Register to determine if revisions… Continue reading OSHA Takes Steps To Revise Silica Standard For Construction
Adopting Smart Contracts in Construction: What are the Practical and Legal Issues? – More Questions than Answers?
Mark Macaulay and Tracey Summerell | Dentons | August 2, 2019 The construction industry is starting to engage more widely with new and emerging technology like Building Information Modelling, drones and 3D printing. Various bodies are now working on the multitude of challenges that implementation of such “new tech” poses for the industry. (See, for… Continue reading Adopting Smart Contracts in Construction: What are the Practical and Legal Issues? – More Questions than Answers?