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Are you responsible for your independent contractors’ negligent acts?

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2013

The New Jersey Appellate Division recently found that a jury must resolve whether a company is liable for the negligence of its independent

New Jersey legislature approves Permit Extension Act, suspending the expiration of certain governmental approvals and permits for up to four years

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 3 2008

Recognizing that an economic emergency in the State of New Jersey is greatly affecting the real estate and construction sectors, on June 23, 2008, both houses of the New Jersey Legislature approved the Permit Extension Act

Connecticut Supreme Court refines the "piercing the corporate veil" doctrine

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 20 2010

The Connecticut Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the doctrine of "piercing the corporate veil" cannot apply to a single-owner limited liability company absent a finding that the owner used his control over the entity to perpetrate a fraud

Unsettled Massachusetts mechanics' lien law to reach favorable settlement

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2010

This case and its companion cases involved contentious construction disputes surrounding the interplay of the Massachusetts Mechanics' Lien Statute in the context of a bankrupt general contractor and a building owner's claims for offset damages

New Jersey Construction Lien Law revised

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 11 2011

On January 5, 2011, nearly two years after the New Jersey Law Revision Commission released its final report in which it called for significant revisions to the Construction Lien Law (Title 2A:44A-1 et seq.) (the "CLL"), Governor Chris Christie signed into law significant amendments to the CLL (the "Amendments"