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New Jersey Law Journal

Five Ways Owners Can Control Construction Cost Overruns

Construction cost overruns can convert a potentially successful project into an unprofitable boondoggle. Controlling cost overruns is key to achieving a successful project.
4 minute read

Law.com

Court Must Determine Whether Construction Worker Is Employee or Independent Contractor, Alaska High Court Holds

The Alaska Supreme Court, reversing a trial court's decision, said a judge, not a jury, must determine whether a construction worker killed in a work-related accident was an employee or independent contractor based on previous case law.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Appellate Court Orders City to Pay Up Over Regulatory-Taking Tactics

"You can't use transferable development rights or gimmicky substitutes as a get-out-of-just compensation card," said Robert H. Thomas, the property rights litigation director at the Pacific Legal Foundation, who represented the plaintiff.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Sheppard Mullin Reps Construction Contractor in Challenge to Prevailing Wages Law for Traffic Control Workers

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

We All Float Down Here: A Property Owner's Guide to Navigating Schedule Float

While property owners (whether private developers or municipalities) often approach this problem by including detailed scheduling requirements and liquidated damages provisions in their construction agreements, these same entities often ignore the critical role that schedule float plays in keeping their projects on track
6 minute read

Law.com

DOJ Begins Distributing North Dakota FHA, ADA Housing Settlement Payments

The Department of Justice began delivering payments this month to individuals from a recent federal lawsuit alleging violations of the Fair Housing…
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lawmakers Pave Way for 20 Highway Projects Across the State

As Florida lawmakers put the finishing touches on this year's legislative session, they approved a request from Gov. Ron DeSantis to help speed 20 highway projects across the state under the banner of "Moving Florida Forward."
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Construction Accident Litigation, Part 1: 'Biaca-Neto' and Sole Proximate Cause

In this edition of his Construction Accident Litigation column, Brian Shoot focuses upon a single question: whether the plaintiff-worker's conduct constitutes the sole proximate cause of the subject accident as a matter of law, or alternatively may be deemed by a jury to be the sole proximate cause of the subject accident.
15 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Consider Binding Mediation for Your Persnickety Construction Disputes

As the old saying goes, "Sometimes it is more important for some things to be decided than to be decided correctly." As the saying recognizes, the efficiency in achieving resolution is sometimes just as important as the substantive resolution itself.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Live Local Act: Incentives to Build More Affordable Housing in Fla.

The act seeks to spur additional development of affordable housing by increasing funding, preempting certain local land use and zoning regulations, and providing new tax exemptions. The act also prohibits local governments from enacting rent control regulations such as those seen in New York City and San Francisco.
7 minute read

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