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Unless a contract specifically provides otherwise, an owner is not a third-party beneficiary of a standard contract between a general contractor and a subcontractor. This principle is illustrated in ...

Who doesn’t want to have a detailed and coherent construction agreement in place on every job? It minimizes confusion, makes clear everyone’s respective responsibilities and should reduce disputes.

Unfortunately, just because it's not written in the actual agreement doesn’t mean it's not part of your contract. Instead of being written in the agreement, many terms are, as we lawyers like to say, ...

The bane of a contractor’s construction performance can be unforeseen subsurface and other site conditions. Commonly referred to as changed or differing site conditions, they can cause both increased ...

Historically, courts typically refused to impose liability for negligence in the performance of a contract unless the plaintiff was a party to the contract. Thus, whenever a contractor provided ...

The Illinois Appellate Court reversed a trial court’s statutory fraud judgment against a contractor in a defective construction case. The Appellate Court held that as a matter of law: (1) a contractor ...