Shields Law Partners, L.L.P. is pleased to announce that 3 of the firm’s lawyers have been included as “Best Lawyers” in the 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers has published their...
While typically tucked away at the end of construction contracts, forum selection provisions and choice of law provisions can control significant aspects of the parties’ respective responsibilities and liabilities on a construction project. [Read More...]
Effective August 1, 2019, the Louisiana legislature introduced a pilot program authorizing a significant change to Louisiana’s public bidding process called “A+B Bidding.” With the introduction of this new bidding method on public projects, are the traditional built-in discretionary bidding limitations about to come to an end? [Read More...]
Often, construction projects and the alleged resulting damages span multiple commercial general liability (“CGL”) policy periods and even multiple insurers. Courts typically revert to the so-called trigger theories when they cannot pinpoint the date or dates the injury or damage actually took place. [Read More...]
Surety bonds are a primary, if not mandatory, component of every-day construction projects. While commercial insurers on a construction project expect losses and adjust insurance rates to cover such losses depending on many factors, sureties do not expect to pay out-of-pocket for bond losses and, instead, require principals and indemnitors to exonerate, indemnify, and often defend sureties in the event of a loss or anticipated loss. As such, a general agreement of indemnity in favor of the surety usually goes hand-in-hand with the issuance of construction surety bonds. [Read More...]
Every decade, the AIA reviews and updates the standard form construction documents that are typically used in the construction industry. The AIA has recently released 11 revised versions of the forms and contracts documents. They anticipate the release of 18 more documents in the fall of 2017. The AIA’s most helpful publications concerning the new...
