If your workers comp policy with State Fund renews October 1, it’s time to request your renewal quote thru Group 825.
As a member of the Bay Area Builders Exchange, you may be eligible for a 6% group discount through our group program with the State Compensation Insurance Fund.
If your annual workers comp premium exceeds $8700.00, it pays to be member of the Bay Area Builders Exchange.
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
While the drought in California has caused many problems, there is also a flipside of the coin and an opportunity for contractors that hasn’t ‘dried up.’
When does the need to be licensed kick in for a manufacturer about to sign a ‘contract’? But we begin with some great memories for a father and son…
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
First, an issue facing the roofing industry in California has a contractor ‘fired up’ then another needs help deciding what name to use for his new business…
Q: I read your column in the weekly NCBE newsletter.
I sent an email to all CSLB staffers and have gotten no response. Can you help with this matter?
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
There was a time when LLC’s couldn’t be licensed in California. That changed in 2012, but many contracting rules and regulations put on paper for decades have stood the test of time unchanged. With a nod to the CSLB’s recent look at the roots of contracting law in California, we revisit some contractor Q&A from previous years that show what goes then still goes now. This from 2002 gets us started on this ‘blast from the past’…
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
Water damage sucks, but is a contractor’s license required to just vacuum it up?
Our friends ‘in high places’ will appreciate another question and the answer that is ‘on the house’ as we also clarify rules on Nevada licensing in this edition…
What Happens When You Change Your Entity Status
by John McGill
In the last article, we discussed E.J. Franks Construction Inc. v Bhupinder Sahota and how the change from a sole proprietorship to a corporation affected the theories of recovery available to a contractor, but not the right to recovery by the contractor.