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By William C. Last, Jr., Attorney at Law

As our earlier post and emails have indicated, last year Governor Brown signed into law a new twist to The Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Act).The change goes into effect on July 1, 2014. If you are a contractor submitting a bid to a public entity for a California public works project will be required to include the contractor license number of each subcontractor you have listed.

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

What you believe you know or think is right may not always be the case when it comes to contractor regulations. We often hear from contractors who heard a rumor or were given inaccurate or incorrect information by someone else. Another aspiring contractor hopes to ‘qualify’ his experience into a license number but first we have to disappoint a contractor who hopes to ‘divide and conquer’ with just half his license…

from the State Compensation Insurance Fund, Safety News, 2nd Quarter, 2014

An unsupported, improperly shored or sloped trench or excavation wall can collapse killing or injuring workers with little or no warning. However, most of these accidents can be anticipated and prevented with the proper training and education.

What conditions influence the kind and amount of shoring needed?

by John P. McGill

If you work on public projects then you are likely aware of the False Claim Act and what it means; for those of you who do public works but don’t know this law, you should.  The California False Claim Act (CFCA) is modeled on the Federal False Claim Act (FCA), which has been around since the Civil War.  Both the FCA and the CFCA are used to penalize contractors that over bill the government for work they perform.  The FCA has been used against contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, sometimes effectively, sometimes not so much. 

By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.

With the ‘Silver’ state in his sights, a ‘Golden’ state contractor will learn if his license number is a good bet in neighboring Nevada. The countdown is on for another contractor with concerns about his Worker’s Compensation coverage, and we ‘smoke out’ a rare alert for both contractors and homeowners…