Alexandra Ortiz Hadley | Butler Snow Some of the most frequent questions I’ve received since finishing my federal district court clerkship involve how certain judges feel about specific parties or issues. In a political climate that often portrays the federal judiciary as a battleground for partisan politics rather than a bastion of neutrality, these questions… Continue reading Lessons From [The Side Of] The Bench
Month: March 2020
Who Decides Whether A Reinsurer Is A Run-Off Reinsurer?
Larry P. Schiffer | Squire Patton Boggs In the past 10 years or so, several ceding companies began adding run-off reinsurer clauses to their reinsurance contracts to mitigate disputes that might arise with reinsurers no longer actively in business. In a recent case, a Georgia federal court had to address whether it or an arbitration… Continue reading Who Decides Whether A Reinsurer Is A Run-Off Reinsurer?
Policy Language Expressly Prohibits Replacement of Undamaged Material to Match Damaged Material
Tred R. Eyerly | Insurance Law Hawaii Construing an all-risk Businessowners Policy, the court found that the policy language did not required replacement of undamaged material match materials that were damaged. Pleasure Creek Townhomes Homeowners’ Ass’n v. Am. Family Ins. Co., 2019 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1095 (Minn. Ct. App. Nov. 25, 2019). … Continue reading Policy Language Expressly Prohibits Replacement of Undamaged Material to Match Damaged Material
Design-Build Contracting: Is The Shine Off The Apple?
John P. Ahlers | Ahlers Cressman & Sleight The design-build delivery method offers many benefits to owners. Among the cited benefits are that projects are generally completed faster, at a lower cost, by allowing innovative approaches through early and continual contractor involvement in the design process. The design contractor serves as a single point of… Continue reading Design-Build Contracting: Is The Shine Off The Apple?
Turning Back the Clock: The New Timeline for Warranty Claims in Multi-Family Construction
Nicholas Loyal | Stinson The Minnesota Supreme Court recently issued a decision that altered the rules on when the clock starts on a condo association’s right to bring a claim under Minnesota’s new home statutory warranties. Those warranties will now begin to run on the date the first unit in a building is sold, rather… Continue reading Turning Back the Clock: The New Timeline for Warranty Claims in Multi-Family Construction