Mitigate Risk: Effective Strategies for Employers By Justin Kaplan, Esq. “Hey, how you doing?” engineer Joseph Scott asked coworker and fellow engineer DeWayne Craddock in the...

Where a contractor has been delayed by an owner (or by a third party for whom the owner is responsible), that contractor may be...

If you receive an OSHA citation, you need to make a decision relatively quickly on how to respond. One option is to immediately request...

Part 3 of 4: Self-Inspection By Anthony M. Kroese, Esq. and Samantha V. Catone, Esq. In parts one and two of this four-part series addressing the...

On large commercial, industrial, and energy projects in both the public and private sphere, general contractors may require those subcontractors performing significant scopes of...

Contractors often bid projects based solely on information provided by owners and after only a limited site investigation. Yet, owners often use broad risk-shifting...

Few items in a construction contract are more important than a clear, well-defined scope of work that, in detail, outlines the work a contractor...

The construction industry is full with complex, multi-faceted, and multi-party transactions that often feature heavily negotiated legal documents. Typically, each party involved, whether the...

OSHA will be the first to admit that its safety standards set forth “minimum” safety standards. In the most basic of terms, this means...

This year, OSHA is likely to engage in a series of far-reaching regulatory changes—from increased fines to stepped-up inspections—that could affect countless numbers of...