Articles

 By Kenneth S. Grossbart, Abdulaziz, Grossbart & Rudman

Insurance is defined as coverage by contract whereby one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by a specified contingency or peril; a means of guaranteeing protection or safety.  Some insurance is optional and some is required.  Contractors have many options and we thought that we would take the time to highlight some of the insurance that is required and other available options in the construction industry - keep in mind this does not cover everything.

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

What work, outside your specialty, can you do? Our first contractor finds himself ‘fenced out’ on a job he can rightly do. A demolition contractor helps us ‘break down’ the new ‘asbestos licensing’, and we must ‘demolish’ the ideas of a partnership hoping to maintain the ‘status quo’ in their current license…

by William L. Porter of Porter Law Group, Inc.

The “Notice of Non-Responsibility” is one of the most misunderstood and ineffectively used of all the legal tools available to property owners in California construction law. As a result, in most cases the answer to the above question is “No”, the posting and recording of a Notice of Non-Responsibility will not prevent enforcement of a California Mechanics Lien.